oya
6 words
Words written this way
6 different Yorùbá words are written oya once tone marks and underdots are removed. Tone is part of the word, not decoration: these are as different from each other as any other words are.
ọ̀yà
cane rat, grasscutter
ọ̀yà
labor
ọ̀ya
something that is forked
ọ̀ya
someone who is castrated, eunuch
ọyà
wife
Ọya
A female orisha and one of the irúnmọlẹ̀ in the Yoruba religion, she is believed to be the spirit of the Niger river, and is the goddess of storms, winds. She is the wife of Ṣàngó, and was also an ayaba (“queen”), when he was the Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́.
Source: Wiktionary. This page is not a dictionary entry — it lists the words
written one way, and nothing else.