Múyìíwá
name
/mṹ.ꜜjí.wá/
Definitions
- a unisex given name meaning “brings this one”, usually a shortening of a longer name such as Olúwamúyìíwá (“The Lord has brought this one”), Ògúnmúyìíwá (“Ogun has brought this one”), Adémúyìíwá (“Royalty has brought this one”) etc.
- a surname
Etymology
From mú (“to bring”) + èyí (“this”) + wá (“to come”), literally “To bring this one [the child]”
Component words
múto bringèyíthis
wáto come
2 entries are spelled “wá”. The etymology calls it “to come”, but that isn't enough to tell them apart — we've linked to the first.
wá
come
wá
to look for
Related words
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.
MuyiwaEnglish
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “Muyiiwa”.
Reference:
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