aká
noun
/ā.ká/
Definitions
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arm, branch
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Other entries with this spelling
Wiktionary records 3 entries spelled “aká”. You're reading one of them; here are the others.
Etymology
Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *á-ká. Cognate with Igbo aka (“arm/hand”), Nupe ekpá (“shoulder”), Olukumi áká (“shoulder, wing”), Igala íká (“wing”), Itsekiri iká, possibly a Doublet of èjìká. The root is reconstructed to Proto-Niger-Congo *-ka (“hand”), where it is believed to have held the meaning "five." See Defaka ápá as well
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.
ọ̀gụ̀nrụ̀nká
Source: Wiktionary · etymology 1,
where this word is spelled “aka”.
Reference:
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