Etymograph

English

Yoruba

Yoruba comes from Yoruba Yorùbá.

  1. YorubamodernYorùbá
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1979Yoruba

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. YorubamodernYorùbá
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1979Yoruba

Earliest quotation: 1979, Zacchaeus Akin Ademuwagun, John A. A. Ayoade: “The Yoruba practitioner describes it as a condition where…”

Every English word from Yoruba Yorùbá

Today it means

noun A member of an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria, southern Benin, and eastern Togo and, as well as in communities elsewhere in West Africa, United States, Brazil and Cuba.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Yoruba Yorùbá / Yoruba

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