odó
noun
/ō.dó/
Definitions
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pounding mortar
Níbo ni àwọn odó tí a máa ń lò láti gún iyán?. Where are the pounding mortars that we use to pound yam?Wọ́n ń gún iyán nínú odó. They were pounding pounded yam food in a pounding mortar.
Etymology
Cognate with Igbo odō and Edo odó, equivalent to o- (“nominalizing prefix”) + dó (“to pound”)
Component words
o-nominalizing prefix
dóto pound
2 entries are spelled “dó”. The etymology calls it “to pound”, but that isn't enough to tell them apart — we've linked to the first.
dó
to fuck
dó
to settle; to found a settlement
Used in
Source: Wiktionary · etymology 7,
where this word is spelled “odo”.
Reference:
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