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{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bin",
"2": "emẹlu",
"bor": "1",
"t": "bull"
},
"expansion": "→ Edo: emẹlu (“bull”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Edo: emẹlu (“bull”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "urh",
"2": "imelu",
"bor": "1",
"t": "cattle"
},
"expansion": "→ Urhobo: imelu (“cattle”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Urhobo: imelu (“cattle”)"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "ff",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Fula",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Possibly from an older form màlúwù. It is a very old loan word, likely from a language of what is now Northern Nigeria (as that is how cows likely arrived to Yorubaland, perhaps from Fula. Cognate words do not exist or have not been found in the modern vocabulary of Northern languages that have vocabulary borrowed by the Yoruba (Baatonum, Fulfulde, Hausa, Nupe), thus possibly suggesting it may have likely borrowed from a now extinct language, or a word no longer used in the vocabulary of the original language.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "màlúù",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "noun",
"head": "màlúù",
"head2": ""
},
"expansion": "màlúù",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "noun",
"2": "màlúù",
"3": ""
},
"expansion": "màlúù",
"name": "yo-pos"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "màlúù"
},
"expansion": "màlúù",
"name": "yo-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "yo",
"name": "Animals",
"orig": "yo:Animals",
"parents": [
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "yo",
"name": "Even-toed ungulates",
"orig": "yo:Even-toed ungulates",
"parents": [
"Mammals",
"Vertebrates",
"Chordates",
"Animals",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "yo",
"name": "Livestock",
"orig": "yo:Livestock",
"parents": [
"Agriculture",
"Animals",
"Applied sciences",
"Lifeforms",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "yo",
"name": "Mammals",
"orig": "yo:Mammals",
"parents": [
"Vertebrates",
"Chordates",
"Animals",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"cow, ox, cattle; (in particular) zebu cow"
],
"id": "en-maluu-yo-noun-AOE4MQIf",
"links": [
[
"cow",
"cow"
],
[
"ox",
"ox"
],
[
"cattle",
"cattle"
],
[
"zebu",
"zebu"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Proto-Itsekiri-SEY"
},
{
"word": "Southeast Yoruba"
},
{
"word": "Ìjẹ̀bú"
},
{
"word": "màlúù"
},
{
"word": "Ìkálẹ̀"
},
{
"word": "-"
},
{
"word": "Ìlàjẹ"
},
{
"word": "Oǹdó"
},
{
"word": "Ọ̀wọ̀"
},
{
"word": "màlúghù"
},
{
"word": "Usẹn"
},
{
"word": "Proto-Yoruba"
},
{
"word": "Central Yoruba"
},
{
"word": "Èkìtì"
},
{
"word": "ẹlịlá"
},
{
"word": "Ifẹ̀"
},
{
"word": "Ìgbómìnà"
},
{
"word": "Ìjẹ̀ṣà"
},
{
"word": "Western Àkókó"
},
{
"word": "Northwest Yoruba"
},
{
"word": "Àwórì"
},
{
"word": "Ẹ̀gbá"
},
{
"word": "Ìbàdàn"
},
{
"word": "Ọ̀yọ́"
},
{
"word": "Standard Yorùbá"
},
{
"word": "Northeast Yoruba"
},
{
"word": "Okun"
},
{
"word": "Ìbùnú"
},
{
"word": "Ìjùmú"
},
{
"word": "Ìyàgbà"
},
{
"word": "ẹinlá"
},
{
"word": "Owé"
},
{
"word": "ẹlá"
},
{
"word": "Ọ̀wọ̀rọ̀"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mà.lúù/"
}
],
"word": "maluu"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bin",
"2": "emẹlu",
"bor": "1",
"t": "bull"
},
"expansion": "→ Edo: emẹlu (“bull”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Edo: emẹlu (“bull”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "urh",
"2": "imelu",
"bor": "1",
"t": "cattle"
},
"expansion": "→ Urhobo: imelu (“cattle”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Urhobo: imelu (“cattle”)"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "ff",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Fula",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Possibly from an older form màlúwù. It is a very old loan word, likely from a language of what is now Northern Nigeria (as that is how cows likely arrived to Yorubaland, perhaps from Fula. Cognate words do not exist or have not been found in the modern vocabulary of Northern languages that have vocabulary borrowed by the Yoruba (Baatonum, Fulfulde, Hausa, Nupe), thus possibly suggesting it may have likely borrowed from a now extinct language, or a word no longer used in the vocabulary of the original language.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "màlúù",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "noun",
"head": "màlúù",
"head2": ""
},
"expansion": "màlúù",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "noun",
"2": "màlúù",
"3": ""
},
"expansion": "màlúù",
"name": "yo-pos"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "màlúù"
},
"expansion": "màlúù",
"name": "yo-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Yoruba borrowed terms",
"Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
"Yoruba lemmas",
"Yoruba nouns",
"Yoruba terms borrowed from Fula",
"Yoruba terms derived from Fula",
"Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation",
"yo:Animals",
"yo:Even-toed ungulates",
"yo:Livestock",
"yo:Mammals"
],
"glosses": [
"cow, ox, cattle; (in particular) zebu cow"
],
"links": [
[
"cow",
"cow"
],
[
"ox",
"ox"
],
[
"cattle",
"cattle"
],
[
"zebu",
"zebu"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mà.lúù/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Proto-Itsekiri-SEY"
},
{
"word": "Southeast Yoruba"
},
{
"word": "Ìjẹ̀bú"
},
{
"word": "màlúù"
},
{
"word": "Ìkálẹ̀"
},
{
"word": "-"
},
{
"word": "Ìlàjẹ"
},
{
"word": "Oǹdó"
},
{
"word": "Ọ̀wọ̀"
},
{
"word": "màlúghù"
},
{
"word": "Usẹn"
},
{
"word": "Proto-Yoruba"
},
{
"word": "Central Yoruba"
},
{
"word": "Èkìtì"
},
{
"word": "ẹlịlá"
},
{
"word": "Ifẹ̀"
},
{
"word": "Ìgbómìnà"
},
{
"word": "Ìjẹ̀ṣà"
},
{
"word": "Western Àkókó"
},
{
"word": "Northwest Yoruba"
},
{
"word": "Àwórì"
},
{
"word": "Ẹ̀gbá"
},
{
"word": "Ìbàdàn"
},
{
"word": "Ọ̀yọ́"
},
{
"word": "Standard Yorùbá"
},
{
"word": "Northeast Yoruba"
},
{
"word": "Okun"
},
{
"word": "Ìbùnú"
},
{
"word": "Ìjùmú"
},
{
"word": "Ìyàgbà"
},
{
"word": "ẹinlá"
},
{
"word": "Owé"
},
{
"word": "ẹlá"
},
{
"word": "Ọ̀wọ̀rọ̀"
}
],
"word": "maluu"
}
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