àdín
noun
/à.dĩ́/
Definitions
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oil; usually in reference to palm kernel oil
Related wordseponoun 4 entries are spelled “epo”, and the list this came from doesn't say which one is meant — we've linked to the first. epo oil, palm oil, grease èpò weeds, weed èpo Any plant of species Annona senegalensis èpò chemical, compound, solution àdín àgbọn
Etymology
Cognate with Èkìtì Yoruba ụ̀dị́n, Ìjẹ̀bú Yoruba ùdẹ́n, Igala ìdí, Edo údẹ́n (“palm oil ointment”), Igbo ùde (“ointment, palm oil ointment”), Nupe èdín (“palm kernel oil”), Nupe èdĩ, and possibly related to Edo ẹdi (“nut, palm nut”), Urhobo edi, with a much deeper etymology, it is proposed to be derived from a Proto-Niger-Congo root, see Usaghade útén (“oil palm”), Ibibio adan (“oil”), and Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀téndé
Possibly derived from
Each of these pages lists a word as built from it, spelled a little differently from this one — a different tone mark, or an underdot this word doesn't have.
Tone and underdots are what tell two Yorùbá words apart, so we can't say whether the other page meant this word and mistyped it, or meant a word that has no page here yet.
Writing that word up on Wiktionary settles it. How to help.
dínverb
“dín” lists “adín” as a word built from it. No word here is spelled that way, so this page was matched to it by ignoring tone marks. It may be a misspelling, or “adín” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
dín
to fry in oil
dín
to subtract
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “adin”.
Reference:
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