ede

ede

1. one

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

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• Rhymes: -eːdə

ede

1. (archaic) dative singular of eed

• Today only found in onder ede.

• eed

From French aider (“help”).

• IPA^(key): /ede/

ede

1. help

Form of the verb edō (“I eat”).

ede

1. second-person singular present active imperative of edō

Form of the verb ēdō (“I dispatch”).

ēde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ēdō

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈdɛ/

ede m

1. Alternative form of ade (“weed (unwanted plant)”)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ada I”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 1

• hede

From English head.

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.de/

ede

1. head

• IPA^(key): /e.ˈd̪e/

ede (inanimate medeng, animate dimaede, polite gomedeng)

1. Alternative form of edeng (“two”)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as edé)

Ultimately from Proto-Yoruba *è-dè. While the semantic meaning of language and this specific form is restricted to Proto-Yoruba, the root is widespread across Niger-Congo as roots for "tongue," and thus derives from an older stem. That older stem may be Proto-Yoruboid *-dè. The stem likely originally meant tongue, language, and the general mouth area, but became restricted for language (and also became the term for lip), and replaced ohùn. This is almost certainly a Doublet of ètè. This also explains why the Proto-Yoruboid word for tongue is likely an innovation, see *ʊ́-ɓã́ (“tongue”), see ahọ́n (“tongue”). Compare with Proto-Edoid *U-dhamhɪ, Ibibio edeme, Proto-Bantu *dʊ̀dɪ́mì, Proto-Jukunoid *dema. Many other Yoruba-dialects also have different terms for the language, see eréùn in Ijebu.

• IPA^(key): /è.dè/

èdè

1. language
2. corpus, data
3. speech, utterance

   èdè rẹ kò tí ì yé mi ― I do not understand your speech

• Lucumí: ede

• IPA^(key): /ē.dè/

edè

1. egusi

   Synonym: ẹ̀gúsí

• idé

• IPA^(key): /ē.dé/

edé

1. shrimp, prawn, small lobster

• elédé