ewú
noun
/ē.wú/
iwú (alternative)
Definitions
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gray hair
Ẹ ó fọwọ́ pawú May you use your hand to rub gray hair
Other entries with this spelling
Wiktionary records 2 entries spelled “ewú”. You're reading one of them; here are the others.
Etymology
From Proto-Yoruba *i-ɣú, Proto-Yoruboid *í-ɓṹ, possibly cognate with Igala ímú.
Used in
Possibly derived from
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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.
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wùverb
“wù” lists “ìwù” 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 “ìwù” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
wù
to please; to attract, appeal, desire
wù
to grow; to sprout
wù
to happen, appear, seem
wuverb
“wu” lists “ìwù” 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 “ìwù” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
wu
to undergo danger; to be in danger
wúverb
“wú” lists “ìwú” 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 “ìwú” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
wú
to swell up; to rise
wú
to unearth, uproot, dig up; to exhume
Source: Wiktionary · etymology 1,
where this word is spelled “ewu”.
Reference:
en-ewu-yo-noun-OLvORTUL