ẸMWẸ ỌGHẸDẸGBEDẸGBE VBIHI’YISẸN

100-Day Ẹdo Words & Expressions

ẸDOMAYE LEGACY FOUNDATION
WE ARE IN BENIN
Forward Ever, Backward Never.

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INTRODUCTION

A 100-day programme for daily learning, use, preservation and transmission of the Ẹdo (Benin) language. Each day presents an Ẹdo word or expression with its English meaning. One Ẹdo word may carry more than one meaning. Repeated forms are therefore preserved where different meanings have been recorded.

DAYS 1–25

1. Ọmọ — Child
2. Ọmọrẹfe — Child is wealth
3. Ọmọrọdiọn — Child is senior
4. Ọmọrogiuwa — Child is the King of wealth
5. Ọmọsẹfe — Child is greater than wealth
6. Ọmọsumwẹ — A child leads me
7. Ọmọsigho — Child is more than wealth
8. Ọmọrowa — Child is a home
9. Ọmọdiọn — Senior child
10. Ọmọdamwẹ — The child is mine / My own child
11. Ọmọbude — A child is a source of wise counsel / brings honour and good advice
12. Ọyẹmwẹ — Happiness / Joy
13. Ọyẹmwẹngbe — Personal joy / Personal happiness
14. Iye — Mother
15. Iyemwẹ — My mother
16. Erha — Father
17. Erhamwẹ — My father
18. Ọbowiẹ — Good morning
19. Ọbavan — Good afternoon
20. Ọbota — Good evening
21. Ọkhionwiẹ — Good night
22. Ọbimwina — Well done
23. Ọbokhian — Welcome
24. Ọbevbaru — Well worked / Well done
25. Ọbitota — Well seated

Iyemwẹ tie ruẹ. — My mother is calling.
Erhamwẹ tie ruẹ. — My father is calling.
Iyemwẹ riẹki. — My mother is going to the market.
Erhamwẹ riugbo. — My father is going to farm.

DAYS 26–37

26. Wẹnrẹn — To be thin
27. Khere — To be small
28. Mose — To be beautiful
29. Newẹnrẹ — Thin
30. Nekhere — Small
31. Aban — Native handcuff
32. Abẹe — Penknife
33. Abẹmwẹ — Stammerer
34. Afiala — Flag
35. Agbaka — Crocodile
36. Agbakpan — Bald person
37. Agbanmwẹ — Chin / lower jaw

DAYS 38–64

38. Sẹkẹsẹkẹ — Filthy / dirty

39. Sẹlẹkẹ — Dirty / filthy object

40. Sẹrae — Leave behind

41. Sẹrhiẹnrhiẹ — Revoke a curse

42. Sẹrriọ — Up to that

43. Sẹrrio — Such that

44. Sẹrriọ — So much / so

45. Ẹwu — Dress

46. Sẹsẹsẹ — Very clean

47. Sẹsẹsẹ — Very white

48. Sẹtin — To be able

49. Sẹtin — To be strong enough

50. Sẹtin — To do something

51. Sẹtin — Capable of doing something

52. S