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• nkejiminute; unit; minute
• nwadiànìsocial name of a child in his mother's family, home, locality, village or birthplace e.g. Each of the children of a woman who hails from Obi's family is known as a nwadiànì among Obi's family and kin. If a child's home town is Nneewi but his mother's birthplace is Nnoobi, that child is a nwadiànì at Nnoobi; if the mother's birthplace is the United States the child when in Nigeria is said to be nwadiànì in the United States
• lìreduce to small units; splinter; crush (something softer or more fragile than -gwò)
• eboclan; tribe; kindred; the smallest kinship-cum-residential unit; the smallest kinship-cum-residential unit, a subdivision of
• òbiancestral house of the father (founder) of a village; house belonging to the head of the family (as opposed to mkpukè, woman’s house). The head of the house often retires here for a rest or to entertain visitors, to perform ceremonies, settle cases, and sometimes make offerings of his god(s). This building also houses the family's images like chi, nkwù, arò etc.; part of it is used as a store, e.g. for ropes for climbing palmtrees; title of a king in Igbo land; central or most vital unit; palace; court; reception house
• òfuone; the same; a certain; united; alone; lone
• ogbèlump; piece; loaf; whole (of ball-like objects, e.g. bread, cake, ụkwà, etc.); whole, head of [orange, coconut etc] (especially of fruits); 'village', i.e. a residential unit smaller than one of the three 'quarters' (Ezi, Ìfìtè, and Ìkeǹgà) into which a 'town’ (òbòdò) is divided, and larger than a lineage or 'family' (ụmù nnà)
• ùkwùbundle; (also ùkwù egō) unit in cowrie counting system, consisting of ten èkpète (of six cowries each), thus sixty cowries
• nkebìsection; unit; segment; segmentation; division into parts
• èkpète(= isi egō) unit of cowrie counting system, consisting of six single cowries (ego) mkpụlū
• isi egōunit of six cowries (= èkpète); capital