Dòsùnmú
name
/dò.sũ̀.mṹ/
Definitions
- a male given name meaning “Hold onto the sacred Òsùn staff”
- a surname, from the given name Dòsùnmú
Etymology
From dì mú (“to hold on”) + òsùn (“a religious staff used by babalawos”)
Component words
dì múto hold onòsùna religious staff used by babalawos
Related words
Dọ̀pámú
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
DossoumonFrenchDocemoEnglish
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “Dosunmu”.
Reference:
en-Dosunmu-yo-name-8P-bap8z