funfun
noun
/fũ̄.fũ̄/
spelling unconfirmed
فُنفُن (alternative)
Definitions
- whiteness, white color
Other entries with this spelling
Wiktionary records 3 entries spelled “funfun”. You're reading one of them; here are the others.
Etymology
From the root verb Proto-Yoruboid *-fũ, seem throughout Volta-Niger languages, Urhobo fuanfo, Edo fua (“to be white”), Ayere enfu, Ibibio fia, Ahwai farak, Blench suggests potentially Proto-Niger-Congo *-fu.
Dialectal synonyms “white” 41 varieties
Southeast Yoruba
- Ìjẹ̀bú Òde
- fifu
- Ẹ̀pẹ́
- fifu
- Ìkòròdú
- fifu
- Ṣágámù
- fifu
- Òkìtìpupa
- fífún
Ìtsẹkírì
- Ìwẹrẹ
- fífẹn
Olùkùmi
- Ugbódù
- fúfún
Central Yoruba
- Àdó Èkìtì
- fifun
- Àkúrẹ́
- fifun
- Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì
- fifun
Northwest Yoruba
- Èbúté Mẹ́tà
- funfun
- Ìjàká
- fufu
- Èkó
- funfun
- Ìbàdàn
- funfun
- Ìlọrin
- funfun
- Ọ̀yọ́
- funfun
- Nàìjíríà
- funfun
- Bɛ̀nɛ̀
- funfun
Northeast Yoruba/Okun
- Bùnú
- funfun
- Ìjùmú
- funfun
- Ìsánlú Ìtẹ̀dó
- funfun
- Kabba
- funfun
- Lọ́kọ́ja
- hunhun
Ede languages/Southwest Yoruba
- Sokode
- fũfũ
- Cábɛ̀ɛ́ (Ìdàdú)
- funfun
- Tchaourou
- funfun
- Baàtɛ
- funfun
- Igbó Ìdàácà (Dasa Zunmɛ̀)
- funfun
- Ìkpòbɛ́
- funfun
- Onigbolo
- fufu
- Kétu
- funfun
- Akpáré
- fũfũ
- Atakpamɛ
- fũfũ
- Boko
- fũfũ
- Moretan
- fũfũ
- Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti)
- fũfũ
- Awotébi
- fúfṹ
- Partago
- fofu
- Kandi
- fũfũ
- Kambole
- fũfũ
- Manigri
- fõfũ
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “funfun”.
Reference:
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