agukisinmwiogie

Edo

Alternative forms

Etymology

From à (impersonal pronoun) +‎ (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

  1. 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, →DOI, →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