ṣoṣo
See also: Appendix:Variations of "soso"
Yoruba edit
Etymology edit
Compare Igbo sọ̀ọsọ̀ & Ogbah sọ̀ọsọ̀.
Pronunciation edit
Ideophone edit
ṣoṣo
- only
- 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting Fabunmi, M. A., “ṣoṣo”, in Àyájọ́ Ohùn Ifẹ̀ Ibadan[1], number LDC2008L03, 1972, Nigeria: Onibon-oje Press & Book Industries Ltd, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, , →ISBN:
- Ọ̀pá kan ṣoṣo níí lé igbaa mààkúù; òkò kan ṣoṣo níí tú igba ẹyẹ.
- It is only one wooden staff that drives two hundred cows; it is only one rock misile that disperses two hundred birds (incantation).
Derived terms edit
- amèdèkanṣoṣo (“monoglot”)
- ohun-àṣejáde àmúlò-kan-ṣoṣo (“single-use goods”)
- ṣoṣooṣo (“absolutely only”)
- àṣà ìfẹ́yàwókanṣoṣo (“monogamy”)