Ekiti
English
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Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ekiti
- A state of Nigeria in the South West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Ado Ekiti.
- A historical country in Yorubaland in West Africa.
Yoruba
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From èkìtì (“hills”), which describes the landscape of the Èkìtì homeland. Perhaps from an obsolete plural form, compare with Yoruba òkìtì
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Èkìtì
- A state of Nigeria in the South West geopolitical zone
- A historical country in Yorubaland in West Africa
- (collectively) Ekiti people, a subgroup of the Yoruba people
- A dialect of the Yoruba language
Derived terms
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- English terms derived from Yoruba
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Ekiti State, Nigeria
- en:States of Nigeria
- en:Places in Nigeria
- en:Historical polities
- Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation
- Yoruba lemmas
- Yoruba proper nouns
- yo:Ekiti State, Nigeria
- yo:States of Nigeria
- yo:Places in Nigeria
- yo:Historical polities
- Yoruba collective nouns
- yo:Ethnonyms
- yo:Dialects