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"english": "Khalai talks to the flower around her school. “Please flower, grow strong so bad people won't come into our school.”",
"ref": "(Can we date this quote?), Anthonia Ujene, “Khalai yan with plant”, in Storybooks African Languages",
"text": "Khalai dey yan to flower wen surround her school. “Abeg oo flower, make grow strong oo so yeye person no go fit enter our school.”",
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"word": "Santa Yeye"
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"word": "mimi"
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{
"word": "ni-"
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{
"word": "si-"
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{
"word": "-ni-"
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{
"word": "nami"
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{
"word": "na mimi"
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "u-"
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{
"word": "hu-"
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{
"word": "-ku-"
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{
"word": "nawe"
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{
"word": "na wewe"
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{
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{
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{
"word": "-ako"
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{
"word": "a-"
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{
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{
"word": "ha-"
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{
"word": "hayu-"
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{
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{
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{
"word": "tu-"
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{
"word": "hatu-"
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{
"word": "-tu-"
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{
"word": "nasi"
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{
"word": "na sisi"
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{
"word": "ndisi"
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{
"word": "ndio"
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{
"word": "sio"
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{
"word": "-etu"
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"word": "ninyi"
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{
"word": "m-"
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{
"word": "mw-"
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{
"word": "mu-"
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{
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{
"word": "hamw-"
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{
"word": "hamu-"
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{
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{
"word": "nanyi"
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{
"word": "na ninyi"
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{
"word": "ndinyi"
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{
"word": "sinyi"
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{
"word": "-enu"
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{
"word": "wao"
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{
"word": "wa-"
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{
"word": "hawa-"
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{
"word": "nao"
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{
"word": "-ao"
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{
"word": "—"
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{
"word": "-ji-"
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"word": "For a full table including other classes"
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"english": "A general name for female river orisha, A priestess of any one of the river orisha",
"word": "yèyé omi"
},
{
"english": "A nickname for the orisha Oya",
"word": "yèyé Onírá"
},
{
"english": "A priestess of Osun, a nickname for Osun",
"word": "yèyé Ọ̀ṣun"
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"english": "Queen",
"word": "yèyélúwa"
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{
"word": "màámi"
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"Ondo Yoruba",
"Yagba Yoruba",
"Ọwọ Yoruba"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.