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hey dovakhiin whats crackin whats your deal??

Hopefully nothing is cracking, that’d be bad. Right? If someone cracks, it’s in their bones or on a lie they tell?

I have saved the world three times, and despite the oddity of what I am in this land, I am invited to a new party or feast every other week. Trying to hone my Words is occupying my time nowadays. 

Did you know you can alter your typical Force shout to just blow winds into your victim?

[ukpuru]

Canoe regatta, Eastern Nigeria. (Postcard)

[ukpuru]

Igbo Ubani (Bonny Island) dialect word list by Captain Hugh Crow, a British slave trader between Africa and the West Indies, in The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow [Free download] (1830). For reference.

Some notes: We’ve been told that ‘bèké’ ‘foreigner/white man’ is corrupted from William Balfour Baikie’s name, however ákụ́ bèké and mmanyá bèké are on this list published in 1830, six years after Baikie’s birth, so that’s out the window. The Ubani dialect is unsurprisingly very close to my Ohuhu (Umuahia) dialect, but, I’m surprised at how well the words have been recorded, even if that’s the only compliment I can give Hugh Crow, and how little Igbo has changed, at least, my dialect. I can make out most of the words.

What I can make out in today’s Igbo orthography:

English - Eboe - Ìgbò [Ọ̀hụ́hụ́]

man - wocoe - nwókò woman - wana - nwányị̀ husband - ecoey - ??? [Ubani dialect?] [dí] wife - ecuiana - ??? [nwínyè] child - watacree - nwátàkị́rị́ an old person - okeebery - ókíbìrì a white person - andoucha - ńdí ọ́chá [ónyé ọ́chá] head - eshey - íshí eye - ana - ányá belly - affo - áfọ́ smell - senney - ??? [íshì] master or captain - nammacoe - ńnàm úkwú (’my great father’) doctor - dibbea - díbìà cook - osheeta - òshítá my friend - onenim [wan-nim] - nwánném (’my brother’)

a large ship - owba coocoo - úgbọ́ ǹk’úkwú a small boat - ewba wanta - úgbọ́ nwáńtà pig - asa - ??? [ézì] goat - agoe - ágụ́ [mistaken ‘leopard’ for ‘goat’] monkey - waka - ??? [àdáká?] fowl - ocuccoe - ọ̀kụ́kọ̀ parrot - eacha - ìchéòkù fish - assoe - ázụ̀ dog - ecotta - ńkị́tá beef - annoe - ánụ́ (’meat’) bread - achecha - àchị̀chà yam - gee - jí water - menney - mírí or míní spirits - myabecca - ḿmányá bèké (’alcohol’) cocoa nut - accobecca - ákụ́ bèké palm oil - mano -ḿmánụ́ salt - ownoe - ńnú pepper - ussoe - ósò cold - oyee - óyí death - awawo - ọ́wụ́wụ́ (’dying’) surprise - awamea - ??? [ụ̀wàmi é!?] tub - athasa - ??? a severe beating - pem pem coocoo - pẹm pẹm ǹk’úkwú a moderate beating - pem pem wanta - pẹm pẹm nwá ńtà sleep - owry - ụ́rá large - coocoo - ǹk’úkwú (ǹkè úkwú) small or little - wanta - nwá ńtà bad - gorranjoe - jọ́rọ́ ńjọ́ good - adeema - àdị́ ḿmá warm - oco - ọ́kụ́ no - ofurry - ọ̀fụ́rị̀? look - laguana - lèkwáná get up - lecota - lìkọ́tá go below - gemalla - jèmá àlà give me - wetta - wètá come here - beea - bìá

my god! - howitshem - áhụ́shíalám! or héwù chím!? shake hands - brakey - ??? make haste - geyen gwango - jènyé ńgwángwá what is your name? - awagey? - áhà gị́? be moderate - beecoe - bíkó (’please’) to steal - oche - óshí to sweep - pra pra - ??? (onomatopoeia?) zá to eat - aney - ńní? (food) wash with water - sau sau menney - sọ́sọ̀ míní (’just water’) hold your noise - domona - ??? what is the matter? - ginnemegay - gị́nị́ mẹ̀ gị́? (’what happened to you’) one - oly - ??? [Ubani dialect?] [ótù] two - aboo - àbụ́ọ́ three - athoo - àtọ́ four - anoo - ànọ́ five - esee - ìsé six - esei - ìsíi seven - esa - asáa eight - sato - àsátọ́ [Ubani dialect = sátọ́?] nine - egetee - ìtéghètè ten - eree - ìrí

[sotility]

The beauty, the serenity,land of my forefathers