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Yoruba
Etymology
erin (“elephant”) + ilẹ̀ (“ground, land”), literally “The mighty one of the land”
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Erinlẹ̀
- (Ekiti) a divinity and spirit of the Earth worshipped mainly by the Ekiti people, possibly an earlier form of the orisha worshipped in Ìlóbùú. For a similar concept, see Ẹ̀mìlalẹ̀
- An orisha in the Yoruba religion, worshipped in the town where he was from and later deified, Ìlóbùú, he is the spirit of the Erinlẹ̀ river and is the an orisha of hunting and the Earth.
- Erinlẹ̀ (a river in Nigeria)