Abíọ́nà
name
/ā.bí.ɔ́.nã̀/
Definitions
- a unisex given name, an orúkọ àmútọ̀runwá (“predestined name”), given to a child born before a mother could reach the hospital, or traditionally, born at the farm, before a mother can make it back home
Etymology
From a- (“agent prefix”) + bí (“to be born”) + sí (“to, on”) + ọ̀nà (“road”), literally “One who is born on the road”
Component words
a-agent prefixbíto be born
síto, on
4 entries are spelled “sí”. The etymology calls it “to, on”, but that isn't enough to tell them apart — we've linked to the first.
sí
to, at, toward (used when movement is implied)
sí
to be far, to be distant
sí
The name of the Latin script letter S/s.
sí
Negative form of wà
ọ̀nàroad
Possibly derived from
Each of these pages lists a word as built from it, spelled a little differently from this one — a different tone mark, or an underdot this word doesn't have.
Tone and underdots are what tell two Yorùbá words apart, so we can't say whether the other page meant this word and mistyped it, or meant a word that has no page here yet.
Writing that word up on Wiktionary settles it. How to help.
bíverb
“bí” lists “Abíọ̀nà” as a word built from it. No word here is spelled that way, so this page was matched to it by ignoring tone marks. It may be a misspelling, or “Abíọ̀nà” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
bí
to give birth to
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “Abiọna”.
Reference:
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