agukisinmwiogie
Edo
Alternative forms
- (dated) agukisiʋ̃iogie
- (nonstandard) agukisinmwiongie
Etymology
From à (“impersonal pronoun”) + gú (“to help, to do an action reciprocally”) + ùkì (“moon”) + sìnmwí (“to struggle”) + ògìè (“chief, superior thing”). Literally "that with whom the moon struggles for supremacy". The name references Venus' brightness in the morning sky.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [àɡúꜜkísĩ́ʋ̃j̃ṍꜜɡjè]
Noun
àgúkīsínmwíógȉȅ
- Venus, the morning star
- 1996, E Baibol Ẹdo[1], United Bible Societies, Job 9:9:
- Osanobua viọ avbe orhọnmwẹ rrọ ye iso, avbe agukisinmwiogie, agho, kevbe iyọkhọkhọ kevbe avbe orhọnmwẹ odẹ ekẹn.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Airẹn Amayo; Ohi Elugbe (1983), “Ẹdo Orthography”, in Kay Williamson, editor, Orthographies of Nigerian Languages Manual II, Federal Ministry of Education, Lagos: National Language Centre, pages 1-11
- Joshua A. Emọvọn (August 1979) A phonological study of Edo (Bini), with special reference to the verbal phrase (MPhil Thesis)[2], School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, , →OCLC
- Hans Melzian, Ph.D (1937), A Concise Dictionary of the Bini Language of Southern Nigeria[3], Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., LTD.
- Moses Airẹn Amayo (October 1976) A Generative Phonology of Ẹdo (Bini) (PhD Thesis)[4], Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ibadan, →OCLC
- National Language Centre (1987), A Vocabulary of Primary Science and Mathematics in Nine Nigerian Languages, volume 2 - Edo, Igbo, Kanuri, Enugu, Nigeria: Federal Ministry of Education National Language Centre; Fourth Dimension Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Rebecca N. Agheyisi (1986), An Ẹdo - English Dictionary[5], Ethiope Publishing Corporation, page 3