òghun
Older form for the term salt only found in Northeast and Southeast Yoruba dialects. See Igala ómu, Ifè oŋu, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ó-ɓũ. The form likely referred to an indigenous salt, perhaps related to rock salt or halite, which was later replaced by salt imported from the North.
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| Yoruba Varieties and Languages - iyọ̀ (“salt”) | |||||
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| Language Family | Variety Group | Variety/Language | Subdialect | Location | Words |
| Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Ìjẹ̀bú | Ìjẹ̀bú | Ìjẹ̀bú Òde | iyọ̀ |
| Rẹ́mọ | Ìkòròdú | oghun | |||
| Ṣágámù | oghun | ||||
| Ìlàjẹ (Ùlàjẹ) | Mahin | oghun | |||
| Oǹdó | Oǹdó | oghun | |||
| Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀) | Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀) | oghun | |||
| Ìtsẹkírì | Ìwẹrẹ | uwanguẹ́ | |||
| Olùkùmi | Ugbódù | ówún | |||
| Proto-Yoruba | Central Yoruba | Èkìtì | Èkìtì | Àdó Èkìtì | ịyọ̀ |
| Àkúrẹ́ | Àkúrẹ́ | ịyọ̀ | |||
| Mọ̀bà | Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì | ịyọ̀ | |||
| Northwest Yoruba | Àwórì | Èbúté Mẹ́tà | iyọ̀ | ||
| Ẹ̀gbádò | Ìjàká | iyọ̀ | |||
| Èkó | Èkó | iyọ̀ | |||
| Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | iyọ̀ | |||
| Ìgbómìnà | Ìlá Ọ̀ràngún | iyọ̀ | |||
| Ìfẹ́lódùn LGA | iyọ̀ | ||||
| Ìrẹ́pọ̀dùn LGA | iyọ̀ | ||||
| Ìsin LGA | iyọ̀ | ||||
| Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | iyọ̀ | |||
| Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | iyọ̀ | |||
| Standard Yorùbá | Nàìjíríà | iyọ̀ | |||
| Bɛ̀nɛ̀ | iyɔ̀ | ||||
| Northeast Yoruba/Okun | Owé | Kabba | oghun | ||
| Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ana | Sokode | owũ | ||
| Cábɛ̀ɛ́ | Cábɛ̀ɛ́ (Ìdàdú) | iyɔ̀ | |||
| Tchaourou | iyɔ̀ | ||||
| Ǹcà (Ìcà, Ìncà) | Baàtɛ | iyɔ̀ | |||
| Ìdàácà | Benin | Igbó Ìdàácà (Dasa Zunmɛ̀) | owun | ||
| Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí-Ìjè | Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí/Ìjè | Ìkpòbɛ́ | iyɔ̀ | ||
| Onigbolo | iyɔ̀ | ||||
| Kétu/Ànàgó | Kétu | iyɔ̀ | |||
| Ifɛ̀ | Akpáré | owũ | |||
| Atakpamɛ | owũ | ||||
| Boko | owũ | ||||
| Moretan | owũ | ||||
| Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti) | oŋu | ||||
| Kura | Awotébi | ómú | |||
| Partago | íní, ínú | ||||
| Mɔ̄kɔ́lé | Kandi | imu | |||
| Northern Nago | Kambole | iyɔ̀ | |||
| Manigri | iyɔ̀ | ||||
| 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. | |||||