ọgẹdẹ

Cognates include Yoruba ọ̀gẹ̀dẹ̀, Eastern Àkókó Yoruba ẹ̀gẹ̀dẹ̀, Edo ọ̀ghẹ̀dẹ̀, Igbo ògèdè, Igbo ọ̀gèdè. This may be reconstructed to Proto-Yoruboid if such a term existed for an older food crop not bananas. Bananas reached West Africa centuries after the Proto-Yoruboid language had dispersed, but may have come in contact with Proto-Southeast Yoruba-Itsekiri speakers. Thus, it is unclear if this term was borrowed and then transversed the many people groups as they traded and came into contact with the banana.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀.ɡɛ̀.dɛ̀/

ọ̀gẹ̀dẹ̀

1. banana

Cognates include Edo ọghẹdẹ and Igbo ògèdè, Igbo ọ̀gèdè. This may be reconstructed to Proto-Yoruboid if such a term existed for an older food crop not bananas. Bananas reached West Africa centuries after the Proto-Yoruboid language had dispersed, but may have come in contact with Proto-Yoruba speakers. Thus, it is unclear if this term was borrowed and then transversed the many people groups as they traded and came into contact with the banana (see the term kòkódìà), or if a semantic shift occurred (see the term ọkà).

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀.ɡɛ̀.dɛ̀/

ọ̀gẹ̀dẹ̀

1. banana, plantain

   ọ̀kín níí ṣolóríi gbogbo ẹyẹ; àgbagbà níí ṣolóríi gbogbo ọ̀gẹ̀dẹ̀

   It is the peacock that is the head of all birds; it is plantain that is the head of all types of banana

• → Ebira: ọ̀gẹ̀dẹ̀
• → Baatonum: àgẹ̀dẹ̀