dẹ
verb
/dɛ̄/
spelling unconfirmed
Definitions
-
to hunt; to set a trap
Mo dẹ ìgèrè láti pẹja I set a metal fish trap to kill fish
- to become a skillful hunter
Etymology
Proposed to have been derived from Proto-Yoruboid *dɛ. Cognate with Igala dẹ (“to hunt”)
Used in
Possibly used in
We are not certain about these, for one of two reasons.
Wiktionary says some of them were built from a word spelled like this one, without saying which meaning, so we show each under every meaning it could have come from.
The rest are spelled a little differently from anything here — a tone mark or an underdot apart — so we cannot tell a misspelling of this word from a word that has no page yet.
Both are fixable on Wiktionary, one word at a time. How to help.
ìdẹthe act of hunting
Wiktionary points at “ìdẹ”. No word here is spelled that way, so we have linked “idẹ”, which matches once tone marks are ignored. It may be a misspelling, or “ìdẹ” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
idẹ
brass
udẹ
brass
ụdẹ
bronze, brass
Source: Wiktionary · etymology 3,
where this word is spelled “dẹ”.
Reference:
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