mọ-ọnkọ-mọ-ọnka

text: Near-synonym: mọ̀wé

links: literate literate

links: know know

links: read read

links: write write

glosses: to be literate; to know how to read and write

pos: verb

head

yo

verb

head: mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

expansion: mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

yo-pos

verb

mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

expansion: mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

yo-verb

mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

expansion: mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

forms:
mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà (canonical)
mọ̀ọ́kọ-mọ̀ọ́kà (alternative)
mọ̀ọ́nkọ-mọ̀ọ́nkà (alternative)

ipa: /mɔ̃̀ɔ̃́.kɔ̄.mɔ̃̀ɔ̃́.kà/

etymology_text: From mọ̀-ọ́nkọ (“to know how to write”) + mọ̀-ọ́nkà (“to know how to read”)

compound

mọ̀-ọ́nkọ

mọ̀-ọ́nkà

t1: to know how to write

t2: to know how to read


mọ-ọnkọ-mọ-ọnka

text: Kí àṣà mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà tó dé ni ẹ̀yá Yorùbá ti ń ké ewì, irúfẹ́ ewì yìí ni a mọ̀ sí ewì alohùn.

ref: 2021, Luqman Abísọ́lá Kíaríbẹ̀ẹ́, “Ewì Gẹ́gẹ́ Bí Ètè Ogun Jíjà Láwùjọ”, in Yoruba Studies Review, volume 6, number 1, Yunifásitì Ìpínlẹ̀ Ọ̀ṣun, Nàìjíríà: LibraryPress@UF, →DOI, →ISSN, 2.0 Ewì àti Èdè Ewì, page 76:

english: Before the advent of literacy, Yoruba people were reciting poetry, and this kind of poetry is what we know as oral poetry.

type: quote

links: literacy literacy

pos: noun

head

noun

head: mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

expansion: mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

yo-pos

noun

mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

expansion: mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

yo-noun

mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

expansion: mọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

ṣáájú ìmọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

english: preliterate

translation: preliterate

àìmọ̀-ọ́nkọ-mọ̀-ọ́nkà

english: illiteracy

translation: illiteracy

ipa: /mɔ̃̀ɔ̃́.kɔ̄.mɔ̃̀ɔ̃́.kà/

expansion: mọ̀-ọ́nkọ (“to know how to write”) + mọ̀-ọ́nkà (“to know how to read”)