From the root verb Proto-Yoruboid *-fũ, seem throughout Volta-Niger languages, Urhobo fuanfo, Edo fua (“to be white”), Ayere enfu, Ibibio fia, Ahwai farak, Blench suggests potentially Proto-Niger-Congo *-fu.
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| Yoruba Varieties and Languages - funfun (“to be white”) | ||||
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| Language Family | Variety Group | Variety/Language | Location | Words |
| Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Ìjẹ̀bú | Ìjẹ̀bú Òde | fú |
| Ìkòròdú | fú | |||
| Ṣágámù | fú | |||
| Ẹ̀pẹ́ | fú | |||
| Ìkálẹ̀ | Òkìtìpupa | fún, fífún | ||
| Ìtsẹkírì | Ìwẹrẹ | fẹ́n | ||
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Àwórì | Èbúté Mẹ́tà | funfun |
| Èkó | Èkó | funfun | ||
| Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | funfun | ||
| Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | funfun | ||
| Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | funfun | ||
| Standard Yorùbá | Nàìjíríà | funfun | ||
| Bɛ̀nɛ̀ | funfun | |||
| Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ifɛ̀ | Akpáré | fṹ | |
| Atakpamé | fṹ | |||
| Tchetti | fṹ | |||
| Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo. | ||||
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| Yoruba Varieties and Languages - funfun (“white”) | ||||
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| Language Family | Variety Group | Variety/Language | Location | Words |
| Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Ìjẹ̀bú | Ìjẹ̀bú Òde | fifu |
| Ìkòròdú | fifu | |||
| Ṣágámù | fifu | |||
| Ẹ̀pẹ́ | fifu | |||
| Ìkálẹ̀ | Òkìtìpupa | fífún | ||
| Ìtsẹkírì | Ìwẹrẹ | fífẹn | ||
| Olùkùmi | Ugbódù | fúfún | ||
| Proto-Yoruba | Central Yoruba | Èkìtì | Àdó Èkìtì | fifun |
| Àkúrẹ́ | fifun | |||
| Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì | fifun | |||
| Northwest Yoruba | Àwórì | Èbúté Mẹ́tà | funfun | |
| Èkó | Èkó | funfun | ||
| Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | funfun | ||
| Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | funfun | ||
| Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | funfun | ||
| Standard Yorùbá | Nàìjíríà | funfun | ||
| Bɛ̀nɛ̀ | funfun | |||
| Northeast Yoruba/Okun | Ìbùnú | Bùnú | funfun | |
| Ìjùmú | Ìjùmú | funfun | ||
| Ìyàgbà | Yàgbà East LGA | funfun | ||
| Owé | Kabba | funfun | ||
| Ọ̀wọ́rọ̀ | Lọ́kọ́ja | hunhun | ||
| Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ana | Sokode | fũfũ | |
| Cábɛ̀ɛ́ | Cábɛ̀ɛ́ | funfun | ||
| Tchaourou | funfun | |||
| Ìcà | Agoua | fũfũ | ||
| Ìdàácà | Igbó Ìdàácà | funfun | ||
| Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí-Ìjè | Ìkpòbɛ́ | funfun | ||
| Kétu | funfun | |||
| Onigbolo | fufu | |||
| Yewa | fufu | |||
| Ifɛ̀ | Akpáré | fũfũ | ||
| Atakpamé | fũfũ | |||
| Boko | fũfũ | |||
| Moretan | fũfũ | |||
| Tchetti | fũfũ | |||
| Kura | Awotébi | fúfṹ | ||
| Partago | fofu | |||
| Mɔ̄kɔ́lé | Kandi | fũfũ | ||
| Northern Nago | Kambole | fũfũ | ||
| Manigri | fõfũ | |||
| Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo. | ||||