jòkújòkú
noun
/d͡ʒò.kú.d͡ʒò.kú/
Definitions
- scavenger (an animal that feeds on decaying matter)
Etymology
Reduplication of jòkú (“to eat the dead”), from jẹ (“to eat”) + òkú (“corpse; dead body”), literally “corpse eater”.
Component words
Wiktionary records 2 different ways of breaking this word down. Each line is one of them, not a further part.
jòkúto eat the dead
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “jokujoku”.
Reference:
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