odo

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo odo. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.doː/
• Hyphenation: odo

odo m (plural odo's)

1. (chiefly Suriname) an African Surinamese proverb

 

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From Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Compare English, Italian and French ode, German Ode, Yiddish אָדע (ode), Polish oda, Russian о́да (óda).

• IPA^(key): [ˈodo]
• Rhymes: -odo
• Hyphenation: o‧do

odo (accusative singular odon, plural odoj, accusative plural odojn)

1. ode

• Ido: odo

Borrowed from Esperanto odo, English ode, French ode, German Ode, Italian ode, Russian о́да (óda), Spanish oda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈodo/

odo (plural odi)

1. ode

òdò

1. settlement

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɔdo
• Hyphenation: ò‧do

odo

1. first-person singular present indicative of udire

• oda

Possibly from an earlier edo, a cognate of Old Norse eða and Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌸𐌰𐌿 (aiþþau), from Proto-Germanic *efþau or Proto-Germanic *ehþau.

ōdo

1. possibly, about, perhaps

1. Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔdɔ/

odo (+ genitive)

1. Alternative form of od

• “odo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

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odo

1. proverb, saying

• → Dutch: odo

Cognate with Ternate ara, Tidore ora.

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.d̪o/

odo

1. the moon

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.d̪o/

odo

1. (intransitive) to jump

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics

 

Probable cognate with Igala òfo (“zero”) and related to òfo (“empty, nothing, loss”)

• IPA^(key): /ò.dō/

òdo

1. zero

   Òdo ni wọ́n gbá nínú ìdánwó yẹn.

   They got a zero on that test.

   • 2021 March 30, “FIFA 2022 World cup qualifiers: Japan wọ́ Mongolia nílẹ̀ gẹrẹrẹrẹ pẹ̀lú góòlù mẹ́rìnlá sí òdo”, in BBC News Yorùbá:

     Ni ọjọ Aje ni orilẹede Canada ti kọkọ [na] orilẹede [Cayman] Islands pẹlu ami ayo mọkanla si odo.

     On Monday, Canada first beat the Cayman Islands with a score of eleven to zero.

• òfo

• olódo (“a dunce, a stupid person, one who receives poor grades”)

 

A very old term no longer used except in a few dialects, compare with Igala òkò, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ò-kò

• IPA^(key): /ò.dō/

òdo

1. (rare) pig

   Synonym: ẹlẹ́dẹ̀

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting Fabunmi, M. A., Àyájọ́ Ohùn Ifẹ̀ Ibadan‎^[2], number LDC2008L03, 1972, Nigeria: Onibon-oje Press & Book Industries Ltd, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ọmọ yọyọ ni ti òdo

     Numerous children are a feature of the pig (incantation)

 

• IPA^(key): /ō.dò/

odò

1. river

   Synonyms: ẹri, omi

   Odò Ọya ni òdo t'ó tóbi jùlọ ní Ìwọ Oòrùn Áfíríkà.

   The Niger River is the biggest river in West Africa.

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[3], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ẹ̀mí àbàtà níí módòó ṣàn; ọláa baba níí mú ọmọọ́ yan.

     Just as the liveliness of the marshy land ensures the flowing of the river; so a father's good reputation makes a child feel proud (proverb admonishing good behavior)

2. lower or inner part

   Fáwẹ̀lì odò

   Low vowel

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[4], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Mo fi ọ̀rọ̀ náà sí odò inú mi.

     I kept the matter deep inside me.

3. south

   Synonyms: gúúsù, àwúsẹ̀

   Antonyms: àríwá, òkè, àwúsí

 

• IPA^(key): /ō.dò/

odò

1. Mansonia altissima (Bété, mansonia, or African black walnut)

 

• IPA^(key): /ō.dō/

odo

1. core of a syllable

   Odo sílébù

   Syllable rhyme/nucleus

 

• IPA^(key): /ō.dō/

odo

1. Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundata (white yam, West African yam, Guinea yam, or white ñame)

 

Cognate with Igbo odō and Edo odó, equivalent to o- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ dó (“to pound”)

• IPA^(key): /ō.dó/

odó

1. pounding mortar

   Synonym: ọ̀ị́ṣẹ́

   Níbo ni àwọn odó tí a máa ń lò láti gún iyán?.

   Where are the pounding mortars that we use to pound yam?

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[5], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Wọ́n ń gún iyán nínú odó.

     They were pounding pounded yam food in a pounding mortar.

• Awoyale, Yiwola (2008 December 19) Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[6], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN

odo

1. yours