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Folk etymology suggests it comes from ọ̀-(“nominalizing prefix”) + yẹ̀(“to avoid, to dodge”) + ikú(“death”), literally “That which avoids death”. It is a possibility that the root term may relate to kú (to die) as the second part of the term stays relatively consistently throughout Volta-Niger languages, and kwu or ku is generally associated with old roots for death, however, in some cognate terms, it changes, so that assertion is unlikely, but possible. See GunÌyẹ̀kú, ItsekiriAkú, IgalaỌyẹkwu, IgalaAkwu, EdoÀkó, UrhoboÀkó, IgboÀhwụ, NupeEyako, EbiraỌ̀hàkú. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid*V-kwú
The second of the àpólà or sixteen categories in the Odù Ifá, consisting of the second principal chapter, (Ọ̀yẹ̀kú méjì) and the other fifteen chapters of Ọ̀yẹ̀kú (beginning with Ọ̀yẹ̀kúlógbè).
