Àkúrẹ́
name
/à.kú.ɾɛ́/
Definitions
- Akure (a city in Nigeria)
- the Àkúrẹ́ kingdom
- A subgroup of the Èkìtì people
- A subdialect of the Èkìtì dialect spoken by the people of Àkúrẹ́ and its surrounding towns (sometimes categorized as a distinct dialect of Yoruba)
Etymology
A widely known folk etymology popularized by Akure king Adesida I states it comes from àkún (“royal beads”) + rẹ́ (“to fall, to snap”), literally “The place where the beads snapped”.
Component words
àkúnroyal beadsrẹ́to fall, to snap
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
AkureEnglishẸkuẹEdo
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “Akurẹ”.
Reference:
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