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OGAM/IGBO VCV DICTIONARY 1 ARRANGED BY CONSONANTS By Dr. CATHERINE ACHOLONU CATHERINE ACHOLONU RESEARCH
CENTER, ABUJA, NIGERIA Summary & Introduction 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 betore 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. Ogam is one of the
forms of linguistic expression invented by Africans in ancient times. 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 succeed, where others have failed, to translate
Ogam into rneaningful 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 publications totalling
(1,600 pages of research findings) have provided conclusive evidence that
aPrehistorie African world conqueror and civilizer, known in ancient
mythologies of the world by the name of Kush had created aPre-historie
civilization in West Africa from where he and his armies, and ministers
travelled all around the world, bringing the first knowledge of religion,
astronomy, alchemy or magie 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 archaeologistThurstan 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. 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, and 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. THE
OGAM/IGBO DICTIONARY OF VCV WORDS This dictionary will help in simple
and short expressions, but for very long and complicated ones, a
comprehensive Dictionary of Igbo Language will be required. Important
Pronouns: (Sublective) m -I/me/my/mine; a
...m as in ß. ga
m -I will; A na
m -I am (present continuous tense) i
-you o - he/she a -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, o, e.g. e mee, e loo Examples of open vowels are Igbo /i/ as in English
'meat'; closed vowel as in Igbo /i/ (English 'kit'; Igbo sound /o/ as in English
'mutton' is closed, while /o/ 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, pl). 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 na.-aga -You ARE going);
'that' (I si na. -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). IGBO WORDS WHERE THE SECOND
LETTER IS A CONSONANT The following
are Igbo words in which the second letter from the left is as shown at the
beginning of the list. (e.g., Aba
(2nd letter is a "b").
The first and last letter of the word is either spelled as a noun or
sounds like one. |
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
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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