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Yoruba
Etymology
From Ufẹ̀. Several folk etymologies existed including i- (“nominalizing prefix”) + fẹ̀, literally “The Land that widens”
- Possibly from i- (“nominalizing prefix”) + fẹ̀ (“to be prosperous, to be successful”), literally “Land of prosperity”
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ifẹ̀
- Ifẹ (a city in Nigeria)
- Synonym: Ilé-Ifẹ̀
- (historical) Ife Kingdom
- mythological origin place of the Yoruba people
- Ife, a subgroup of the Yoruba people, who speak the Ifẹ̀ dialect of Yoruba
- A dialect of the Yoruba language