Adébáyọ̀
name
/ā.dé.bá.jɔ̀/
Definitions
- a male given name
- a surname, from the given name Adébáyọ̀
Etymology
Either adé (“crown, royalty”) + bá (“to meet”) + ayọ̀ (“joy”), literally “royalty meets joy” or a- (“agent prefix”) + dé (“to arrive”) + bá (“to meet”) + ayọ̀ (“joy”), literally “the one who arrives and is met with joy”.
Component words
Wiktionary records 2 different ways of breaking this word down. Each line is one of them, not a further part.
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
AdebayoEnglish
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “Adebayọ”.
Reference:
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