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OGAM / IGBO VCV
DICTIONARY ARRANGED BY CONSONANTS Professor
Catherine Acholonu Acholonu Research
Center Abuja, Nigeria [Contact] ----Please CLICK on underlined categories for detail [to search for Subject Matter, depress Ctrl/F ]: Ogam is one of the forms of
linguistic expression invented by ancient Africans. We know this because,
even though Ogam has not been translated by any of the international scholars
who have been researching and transcribing it since the turn of the 20th Century, we have
succeeded, where others have failed, to translate Ogam into meaningful
passages, wise sayings, proverbs and philosophical statements (see our
numerous articles on the subject -some, posted on our website, some published
on the Christine Pellech website and others also published by UNESCO
Nigeria). Our 20 years of research on the contributions of ancient Africans
to World Civilizations (published in three full length volumes totaling 1,600
pages of research findings) have provided conclusive evidence that a
prehistoric African conqueror and civilizer, known in ancient mythologies of
the world by the name of Kush had created a Pre-historic civilization in West
Africa from where he and his armies, and ministers traveled all around the
world, bringing the first knowledge of religion, astronomy, alchemy and
writing. Kush had an empire in the African
rain forest known in various mythologies by such names as Tilmun, Punt,
Meluhha, Biafra, Western Ethiopia and Old Kingdom Egypt. Its capital city was
excavated in the 1950s by British archaeologist Thurstan Shaw. But Shaw (for reasons known to him alone)
hid the fact that he had discovered a lost city. His dating of 900 A.D. was of course false, since he was
operating ab initio from a
perspective of withholding vital information. The Catherine Acholonu Research Center has done extensive
research on this lost civilization of Kush and discovered that the writings
they gave to the world included Ogam.
Ogam has been successfully translated into the native language of the
people in whose land the lost city is located. That land and its people and
language are calied IGBO/IBO -the city itself was known in ancient Egypt as
Yebu or Heliopolis. It is located in West Africa, Nigeria to be precise. Its old name was Igbo and lts new name
since colonial times is Igbo Ukwu. CATHERINE
ACHOLONU RESEARCH CENTER The Catherine Acholonu Research
Center (CARC) is the only organization on the African Continent that is
engaged in Research on ancient African stone inscriptions and native Symbols
as forms of linguistic expression. At the Rock
Arts and Pan African Renaissance Methodologv Workshop held in
Kenya (May 23-24) in 2007 under the auspices of the Trust for African Rock
Art (TARA) and the Center for Slack and African Arts and African
Civilizations (CSAAC), the Catherine Acholonu Research Center made the first
ever scientific presentation on African Rock Art as a means of linguistic
expression and historical documentation by the ancients, before a gathering
of African and non-African stakeholders, archaeologists, historians and
anthropologists. The Catherine Acholonu Research Center, through the
submission made by its Director, Professor Catherine Acholonu, who is also
the Country Ambassador of the UNCCD Forum of Arts and Culture, Nigeria, was
able to place the Pre-historic stone inscriptions of Ikom in Cross River
State, Nigeria (known as Ikom monoliths) in the 2008 World Monument Fund (WMF) Watch List 0/ 100 Most Endangered Sites. "rhe WMF
entry on IKom monoliths emphasized that Ikom monoliths inscriptions
represented "a lost form of writing
before 2,000 S.c.". By thls the Catherine Acholonu
Research Center has succeeded in putting it on global record that ancient
Africans had an indigenous form of writing and that they wrote on stone
before 2.000 B.C. This is a great
achievement of the Center and its Director, Prof. Catherine Acholonu who
personally made the submission from scientific data gathered through her research. Various
authors investigating different ancient writings have referred to them
as "Ogam Script," which has
led to some confusion. Probably the
most ancient and first true Ogam is the "Stick Writings" of the
West African Igbo culture studied by Catherine Acholonu. These are a sequence
of dots, dashes and symbols carved onto bamboo and stone. More recent forms of Ogam were found on
petroglyphs, animal bone and other substrates (E. F.
Legner). THE OGAM /
IGBO DICTIONARY OF VCV WORDS (Some Examples) This dictionary will help in simple
and short expressions, but for very long and complicated ones, a
comprehensive Dictionary of Igbo Language
will be needed. Important Pronouns: (Sublective) m -I/me/my/mine; Q ...m as in ß. ga m -I will; A na m -I am (present continuous tense) i-you 0-he/she Q -impersonal pronoun/one (when the consonant is followed by
open vowels e.g. a gaa, a lia); e -impersonal pronoun/one (when the consonant
is followed by open vowels e, i, e, 0, e.g. e mee, e 100 Examples of open vowels are Igbo /i/ as in English 'meat'; closed vowel as in Igbo
/i/ (English 'kit'; Igbo sound /0/ as in English 'mutton' is closed, while /0/ as in English 'mould' is open. anyi-we
unu -you (pi) halwa/wo -they ndi -those who (Objective) m/mu
-me, to me gi -you/to you ya -him/her/to him/her mmadu -one/someone (impersonal) anyi-us/to us unu -you (pl)/to you ha -them/to them ndi mmadu -people (impersonal, pi). A change of tone changes the same
sentence into an affirmative statement (I si -You
say. You said) a conditional statement (I si -If you say.), or a question (I si? -Did
you say?). The word 'na' is very important because it is an all-purpose
gerund. It stands for 'and' (mu na gi -me
and you); 'continuous tense' (I !19.-aga -You
are going); 'that' (I si !19. -You
say that); 'but' -ma na (e.g. but you are going -ma-na i na-aga); 'with' (He is going with you -Ya na gi na-aga). CLICK on letter to locate Igbo words with specific consonant: (Note: All Igbo words are in Bold-faced Green): B, C,
D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, NY, P, KP, Q/KW |
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1. Aba a - When one enters ... (transitive) 2. Aba - Not to enter into... ; also name of a town in Igboland 3. A bia - When one comes ...; name of a State in
Igbo land (o bia) - when he comes) 4. Abu - Song 5. Ebe - Where; Oracle; flying 6. Ebi - Dwelling 7. Ebo - Mound; when one is accused of... 8. Ebu - Hornet; getting fat 9. Iba - Fever; the process of
entering 10. lbe - PatrHineage; paterna l
relatives 11. Ibi - Swelling of the
scrotum 12. Ibo - (Another spelling for
'Igbo'), accusing falsely, placing (a load) on ... 13. Ibu - Fat; the process of
carrying 14. Oba - Barn 15. Obe - Cross 16. Obi - Heart; main hall of a
man's homestead 17. Obo - Scabbard 18. Obu - Ibis bird 19. Uba - Riches 20. Ube - Native pear; cry;
lance 21. Ubi - Farm land 22. Ubo - Scabbard 23. Ubu - Scramble 24. Acha - Name of a grain grown
in Northern Nigeria assoeiated with
famine 25. A cho (o) - When one finds/looks
fo... r; (na-acho - is
looking for) 26. Achi - A seed for soup- making; name of a town
27. Achu - Pursuing 28. Eehe - Trimming a tree by
cutting; thinking, meditating 29. Echi - Tomorrow (fchlchi- Initation; fehl echichi- taking an
initiation) 30. Echu - Become bad; collecting
(water) 31. Icha - Yellowing; passing
(some on) by 32. lehe - The process of
guarding; thinking (When
a verb is preceded by the letter i, it implies a process or the second
person pronoun.) 33. lehi - Taking an initiation
or eoronation 34. Icho - looking for (a missing
item) 35. Ichu - Scaring away
(something or someone) 36. Oche - Seat/chair 37. Ochi - Rectum 38. Ocho - He who seeks 39. Ochu - He who seeks 40. Uche - Thought; mind 41. Uchu - Curse; attention 42. Ada - Daughter, fall, infant vomit 43. Adi - Not being (in astate of... ) 44. Ado - Protecting; (ado
o - when one plants) 45. Adu - Seed yam 46. Ede - Cocoyam; writing 47. Edi - Hyana 48. Edo - Yellow; raining 49. Edu - Guiding (o na edu-he is guiding;
i na edu-you are guiding) 50. Ida - Falling 51. Ide - Writing 52. Idi - Being in astate of... 53. Ido - Keeping; contesting for 54. Idu - Leading; guiding 55. Oda - He who falls 56. Ode - He who writes 57. Odi - It is (o di mma - It is good) 58. Odo - He who insists on having 59. Odu - Tall; elephant tusk as a symbol of initiation 60. Uda - A kind of spice; loud sound 61. Ude - Loud sound; fame 62. Udi - Name of a place; type 63. Udo - Peace; Robe 64. Udu - Calabash pot; wine pot or jar 65. Afa - Name; oracle; (afaa - when one
squeezes…) 66. Afe - Dress 67. Afi (ko) - When … is crumbled 68. Afo - Belly/ Stomach; year - Orlu dialect 69. Afu - When one sees
{transitive} ... 70. Efe - Flying; dress; spare
time 71. Efi - Cow (migrant Igbo dialect) 72. Efo - Dawning; Chi elo - The day is dawning. 73. Efu - Baseless; getting lost 74. Ifa - Squeezing 75. lfe - Flying; Worshipping 76. lfi - Maka
ifi - Due to; because of 77. Ifo - Folktale; pulling out
(by the root) 78. Ifu - Getting lost 79. Ofa - (Ofaa) If he squeezes 80. Ofe - Native soup; across 81. Ofo - If it remains; Piece
of wood used to invoke divine power 82. Ofu - One 83. Ufe - Flight; swindle; lies 84. Ufo - Inner room of a titled
man 85. Ufu - Fox 86. Aga - Childless, Will it be
... ? {e.g Aga
as; na ..?-Will it be said that...? 87. Ago - Defense 88. Agu - Lion, a powerful
person; Aguu/Aguru - hunger 89. Ege - Listening 90. Ego - Money; a girl's common
name 91. Egu - A kind of edible
caterpillar 92. Iga - Going; snatch (from) 93. Ige - Listening 94. Igo - Buying; offering to,
propitiating (a god) 95. Igu - Counting; palm frond 96. Oga - It will, he will, she
will 97. Oge - Time; when 98. Ogo - In-law; kindness;
gracious 99. Ogu - Fight; battle; stick;
Divine Justice 100. Uga - Name of place; passing
of time 101. Uge - Dregs of the palm-wine bottle (a nourishing drink) 102. Ugo - Falcon; eagle 103. Ugu - A legume for cooking
native soup 104. Aha - Name (ahaa - to let go of) 105. Ahi - Squeezing 106. Aho - Choosing; year - Orsu dialect; a kind of dish 107. Ahu - Body; one sees;
shaking 108. Ehe - Underbelly; (ehee/ehepu - removing
excrement) 109. Ehi - Cow in the autochthon
dialect 110. Ehuo - Bowing in reverence (Ehuo-ro - bowing in reverence
for) 111. Ehu - bending down 112. Iha/lra - To spare (a culprit,
something cut in a net) 113. Ihe Ilfe - A thing; light; to
pull in (the stomach through breathing in)
114. Ihi/iti - Cause (maka ihi/ifl- because ot) 115. Iho/ito - Folktale 116. Ihu/iru - Face 117. Oha - People; masses 118. Ohe - Ohere (space) 119. Ohu - Slave; twenty 120. Uha - A legume for cooking
native soup 121. Aja - Sand; offering made to
a god 122. Aji - Hair; a kind of Big
tree 123. Ajo - Evil (adjective), 124. A ju - When one refuses
(transitive) ... 125. Eje - Going 126. Eji Holding on to 127. Eju - Snail 128. Ija - To Hide 129. Ije - To go; walk; gait 130. Iji - To hold; you are
holding 131. Ijo - To be ugly 132. Iju - To be plentiful; you
are full of 133. Oja - Flute 134. Oje - - He who goes ... 135. Oji - Kola- nut; Staff of
spiritual authority; black; dark; tree with large
trunk 136. Ojoo - Ugly 137. Oju - - Broken piece of
earthenware pot 138. Uja - - Dog's bark; shouting 139. Ujp - Fear 140. Uju - Bounty; plentiful 141. Aka - Hand; A specie of
snakes 142. Aki - Oil palm nut/nut 143. Ako - Wisdom; Prudence (143b) Akpu - Fufu; cassava start
meal (was #380.) 144. Aku - Termites; Cocoa nut;
Oil paIm nut; (akuo -when one plants...) 145. Eke - python; a name of one
of the four Igbo market days; creation 146. Eko - Swelling 147. Eku - Wooden spoon;
spooning, shoveling 148. Ika - To be greater than; to speak forth 149. Ike - Strength; to divide; to tie 150. Iko - To tell; cup 151. Iku - To carry (a baby) 152. Oka - Maize; carver 153. Oke - Rat; mouse; share 154. Okiri - Ram Oko 155. Oko - Skin scratching 156. Oku - Fire; hot 157. Uka - Word; religion; church 158. Uke - Destiny 159. Uko - Dearth 160. Ala - Earth; ground 161. Ali - Ground 162. Alo - Placenta; Priest
King's sacred Staff 163. Alu - Abomination; Fighting 164. Eie - Deer; God - EI; Consummate Shaman 165. Elo - Counsel; swallowing 166. Elu - High; heights 167. lIa - To barb (hair); to go
home 168. lIe - To look at, to seil
(also ire) 169. lIi/ini - To bury 170. lIo/ino - To swallow 171. lIu - Bitter 172. Ola - Ring 173. Oie - How many 174. Olili - Burying 175. Olu - Neck; voice 176. Ula - Escape, disappearance 177. Ule - Examination 178. Uli - Name of a place; tough
rope clinging to
a thing 179. Ama - Compound; Original
Divine Mother; open square 180. Ami - Slippery 181. A muo - When birth is given
... ; When one learns ... 182. Amu - Male genitals; 183. Eme - Happening 184. Emi - Deep (imi emt); omimi - mystery 185. Emu - Gossip 186. Ima - To know (i ma - you know; i ma mma -to be beautiful, good)
187. Ime - To do (N'/me - inside of) 188. Imi - Nose; nasal fluid 189. Imo - Name of the longest
river in Igbo land 190. Imu - To give birth to (omumu -many children from a single woman) 191. Oma - Mother Goddess of the
Igbo 192. Ome - Tender shoot 193. Omi - Weil; cistern 194. Omu - Tender shoot of a palm
tree 195. Omu- mu - Genealogy 196. Ume - A caste; breath (iku ume - to take a breath) 197.
Umu - Children of |
198. Ana - Earth; ground 199. Ani - earth; ground 200. Ano - Four 201. Anu - Meat; that cannot be heard 202. Ene - Looking at 203. Eni - Burying 204. Eno - Swallowing 205. Enu - High; heights (migrant Igbo dialect) 206. Ina - To ask for; to tale from (ila/lna - to go
home) 207. Ine/ile - To look at 208. Ini - To bury 209. Ino - The stay; to return 210. Inu - To hear; to marry (ilu); bitter 211. Ona - A kind of native potato, yam 212. One - How many 213. Onini - Burying 214. Ono-na - He who is in ... 215. Onu - Mouth 216. Una - Going home 217. Uno- House 218. Unu - You {plural} NY 219. Anya - Eye 220. Anyi - We; heavy 221. Anyu - Melon pod 222. Enyi - Friend 223. Enye - When one is given 224. Enyo - Peeping 225. Inya - To drive 226. I nye - If you give 227. Inyo - To peep 228. Inyu - To excrete 229. Onya - One who drives 230. Onye- One/a person who ... 231. Onyu - One who excretes 232. Unyi - Dirt 233. Apa - Being lifted 234. Api - Being sharpened 235. Apu - Silk cotton Tree (Igbo
Ukwu dialect); being dragged along 236. Epu - Germinating 237. Ipa/ibu - To carry 238. Ipe - To break (firewood) 239. Ipi - To sharpen (a knife);
to squeeze out; 240. Ipu - To germinate; to
leave/step out (a room, a place) 241. Opa - Round; moon- shaped 242. Opi - Flute 243. Akpa - bag; 244. Akpi - Bed Bug 245. Akpo - Calling 246. Akpu - Fufu; cassava starch
meal 247. Ekpe - A secret cult (iri ekpe - to inherit a dead person's property) 248. Ekpu - Wearing (a hat) 249. Ikpa - Waste land; to keep
(domestic animals) 250. Ikpe - Case (in court) 251. Ikpo - To call; to call; to
dry up 252. Ikpu - Vagina 253. Okpi - Heavy stick 254. Okpo - cat fish 255. Okpu - Hat; cap; eternal 256. Ukpa - Longish basket; a native nut, highly priced 257. Ukpo - A native spice for soup-making, highly prized 258. Akwa - Cloth; Wrapper; egg; sewing 259. Akwo - Crushing, with stone or with blender 260. Akwu - Silk Cotton Tree (Orlu dialect) 261. Ekwe - Drum (ekwe ekwe -Stubborn) 262. Ekwo - Being noisy 263. Ekwu - Talking 264. Ikwa - To sew; to push; to give burial rites (to) 265. Ikwe - To agree; to sing a song -ikwe ukwe; mortar for pounding 266. Ikwo - To crush in a mortar/grind on stone 267. Ikwu - To say (ikwu udo/ima
udo - to hang oneself on a rope/commit suicide) 268. Okwa - Bush fowl; wooden saucer 269. Okwe - Table games that use seeds or nuts; rubber tree/seeds 270. Okwo - He/she who carries on his back ... 271. Okwu - Word; talk; speech 272. Ukwa - A native bean, delicacy, highly priced 273. Llkwe - Song 274. Ukwo - Popularity, farne, widespread noise 275. Ukwu - Leg; waist, bundle 276. Ara - Madness; 277. Ari - Climbing (arir; - Suffering) 278. Aro - Year (Anambra dialect) 279. Aru - Abomination; body - Anambra dialect 280. Ere - Selling; rotting 281. Eri - God- man (thought to be the
Egyptian god of letters Thoth) 282. Eroo - Mushroom; if ...
pulled out 283. Eru - Gathering (of a storm) 284. Ira - To liek; to have
sexual intercourse with a woman 285. Ire - Tongue; to seil; to
rot; to pronounce as from a god 286. Iro - To choose (iho); to pull by the roots (ifo) 287. Iru - Face; gathering of a
storm 288. Ora - Folk; people; a legume 289. Ore - A place name 290. Ori - He/she who eats;
eczema 291. Oro - He/she who plots 292. Oru - Work; slave; across
the river inhabitants 293. Ura - Sieep; overnight food 294. Ure - Rot; making faces 295. Uri - Body painting/ tattoo;
the paint 296. Uro- Clay 297. Asa - Eel; very beautiful
woman 298. Asi - Lies; asi na ...
- had it been that. .. 299. Aso - Holy 300. Asu - Shrivelling; pounding 301. Uru - Gain, cheat 302. Ese - Quarrelling 303. Esi - Smelling 304. Eso - Following 305. Esu - Millipede 306. Isa - To wash; to pass by 307. Ise - Five; to quarrel; to
pull 308. Isi - Head; leader (isii - six); isisi (topmost head) 309. Iso - To follow (i so - you follow) 310. Isu - A clan name of the
autochthons 311. Osa - Squirrel; Light colour 312. Ose - Pepper 313. Oso - Running 314. Osu - Belonging to the Osu caste 315. Usa - Gluttony 316. Uso - Sweetness (Nso - Holy, set apart,
divine) 317. Usu - Bat 318. Ata - Chewing; drying up (as
in 'water is drying' - miri na-ata) 319. Ato - Three; (ato uto - sweet) 320. Atu - Divine Word; Sore, bad wound
(atumatu - idea) 321. Ete - Palm tree climbing rope 322. Eti - Crushing (palm nut with stone) 323. Eto - Growing (0 na eto -He is growing; i na eto-you are growing) 324. Etu - How to; method 325. lta - To chew; to blame 326. Ite - Pot; pottery; earthenware; to rub 327.
Iti - To beat; a fool 328. Ito - To be older than; to praise 329. Itu - To point (itu aka - to point the hand) 330. Ota - He/she who eats 331. Ote - He who paints/rubs, etc) 332. Oto - A native dish 333. Otu - Vagina 334. Uta - Bow; blame 335. Ute- Mat 336. Uto - Sweetness 337. Utu - Penis 338. Ava/Afa - Name; Oracle (ava - the name of goddess) 339. Avu - Song 340. Evu - Carrying (I ga evu - You will carry; will you carry?) 341. Ivu/lbu - Fat 342. Ovu - He carries W 343. Awa a - When one cuts ... 344. Awo - Frog 345. A wii - When one pours ... 346. Awu - One is ... 347. Ewe - Taking 348. Ewi - Rabbit 349. Ewu - Goat. reigning} in
vogue 350. Iwa - To cut (iwa ji - to cut the yam; Iwa Ji - New Yam Festival) 351. Iwe - Anger; to take 352. Iwi - To fall (hair fall) 353. Iwu - law 354. Owa - Twinkling light;
dawning 355. Owu - Mermaid; water goddess 356. Uwa - World 357. Uwe - Dress 358. Ayi - Befriending 359. Eyi - Wearing (a dress); not
to resemble 360. lyi - To resemble 361. Oyi - Friend; sickness 362. Oyo - Musical Instrument 363. Aza - One answers (to a
call) 364. Azo - Struggling for 365. Azu - Fish, buying 366. Eze - King, tooth, teeth 367. Ezi - Outside; good 368. Ezu - Stealing; being
complete 369. Iza - To sweep; to sieve 370. Ize - To avoid; to crash
down (as in land slide) 371. Izi - To show 372. Izo - To save, to contest 373. Izu - Week, to be complete 374. Oze - That crashes 375. Ozo - Cult of leaders and
Princes; Initiate of the cult; again; gorilla 376. Ozu - Dead body 377. Uzi - A tree with large
trunk 378. Uzo - Way, road, door 379. Uzu - Noise (380. Akpu - Fufu; cassava start
meal - Belongs
in "K"
group)
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