oghun
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Yoruba
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]òghun
- (Ilajẹ, Ikalẹ) Ìlàjẹ and Ìkálẹ̀ form of òun (“he; she; it (emphatic third-person singular personal pronoun)”)
Etymology 2
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oghun