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Yoruba
Etymology
ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) + jẹ (“to rove, to swim”) + ní (“in”) + ubú (“ocean, deep sea”), literally “The ones who swim in the deep sea”
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ìjẹ̀bú
- Ijebu people, a subgroup of Yoruba people who speak the Ìjẹ̀bú spoken variety in the Ede-Yoruba-Itsekiri continuum.
- A spoken variety closely related to that of the Yoruba language
Derived terms
- Ìjẹ̀bú-Ifẹ̀ (“An Ìjẹ̀bú Yorùbá town in Nigeria”)
- Ìjẹ̀bú-Igbó (“An Ìjẹ̀bú Yorùbá town in Nigeria”)
- Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde (“The principal and capital city of the Ìjẹ̀bú people”)