Àkókó
name
/à.kó.kó/
Definitions
- The Akoko sub-group of Yoruba
- The Akoko dialects of Yoruba, comprising of the western and eastern Akoko dialects and the Ào dialect.
Etymology
A folk etymology states, à- (“nominalizing prefix”) + kókó (“reduplication of kó "to kidnap"”), literally “The ones who were kidnapped”; This is said to come from the fact that many Àkókó settlements were raided and the people kidnapped and sold into slavery during the warring periods of the 1700s and 1800s.
Component words
à-nominalizing prefix
kókóreduplication of kó "to kidnap"
2 entries are spelled “kókó”. The etymology calls it “reduplication of kó "to kidnap"”, but that isn't enough to tell them apart — we've linked to the first.
kókó
point
kókó
knot
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “Akoko”.
Reference:
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