odo

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo odo. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.doː/
• Hyphenation: odo

odo m (plural odo's, no diminutive)

1. (chiefly Suriname) an African Surinamese proverb

From Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Compare English, Italian and French ode, German Ode, Yiddish אָדע (ode), Polish oda, Russian о́да (óda).

• IPA^(key): /ˈodo/
• Rhymes: -odo
• Hyphenation: o‧do

odo (accusative singular odon, plural odoj, accusative plural odojn)

1. ode

• Ido: odo

Borrowed from Esperanto odo, English ode, French ode, German Ode, Italian ode, Russian о́да (óda), Spanish oda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈodo/

odo (plural odi)

1. ode

òdò

1. settlement

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɔdo
• Hyphenation: ò‧do

odo

1. first-person singular present indicative of udire

odo

1. carry

• A Grammar Sketch of Sougb, in Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (2002)

• oda

Possibly from an earlier edo, a cognate of Old Norse eða and Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌸𐌰𐌿 (aiþþau), from Proto-Germanic *efþau or Proto-Germanic *ehþau.

ōdo

1. possibly, about, perhaps

• Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔdɔ/

odo (+ genitive)

1. alternative form of od

• “odo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

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odo

1. proverb, saying

• → Dutch: odo

Cognate with Ternate ara, Tidore ora.

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.d̪o/

odo

1. the moon

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.d̪o/

odo

1. (intransitive) to jump

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics

Yoruba numbers ^(edit)

		0	1  → [a], [b]	10  →
Cardinal: òdo     Counting: òdo, oódo

Probable cognate with Igala òfo (“zero”) and related to òfo (“empty, nothing, loss”)

• IPA^(key): /ò.dō/

òdo

1. zero

   Òdo ni wọ́n gbá nínú ìdánwó yẹn.

   They got a zero on that test.

   • 2021 March 30, “FIFA 2022 World cup qualifiers: Japan wọ́ Mongolia nílẹ̀ gẹrẹrẹrẹ pẹ̀lú góòlù mẹ́rìnlá sí òdo [FIFA 2022 World cup qualifiers: Japan drags Mongolia across the ground with fourteen goals to zero]”, in BBC News Yorùbá:

     Ni ọjọ Aje ni orilẹede Canada ti kọkọ [na] orilẹede [Cayman] Islands pẹlu ami ayo mọkanla si odo.

     On Monday, Canada first beat the Cayman Islands with a score of eleven to zero.

• òfo

• olódo (“a dunce, a stupid person, one who receives poor grades”)

A very old term no longer used except in a few dialects, compare with Igala òkò, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ò-kò

• IPA^(key): /ò.dō/

òdo

1. (rare) pig

   Synonym: ẹlẹ́dẹ̀

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting Fabunmi, M. A., Àyájọ́ Ohùn Ifẹ̀ Ibadan‎^[2], number LDC2008L03, 1972, Nigeria: Onibon-oje Press & Book Industries Ltd, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ọmọ yọyọ ni ti òdo

     Numerous children are a feature of the pig (incantation)

• IPA^(key): /ō.dò/

odò

1. river

   Synonyms: ẹri, omi

   Odò Ọya ni òdo t'ó tóbi jùlọ ní Ìwọ Oòrùn Áfíríkà.

   The Niger River is the biggest river in West Africa.

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[3], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ẹ̀mí àbàtà níí módòó ṣàn; ọláa baba níí mú ọmọọ́ yan.

     Just as the liveliness of the marshy land ensures the flowing of the river; so a father's good reputation makes a child feel proud (proverb admonishing good behavior)

2. lower or inner part

   Fáwẹ̀lì odò

   Low vowel

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[4], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Mo fi ọ̀rọ̀ náà sí odò inú mi.

     I kept the matter deep inside me.

3. south

   Synonyms: gúúsù, àwúsẹ̀

   Antonyms: àríwá, òkè, àwúsí

• IPA^(key): /ō.dò/

odò

1. Mansonia altissima (Bété, mansonia, or African black walnut)

• IPA^(key): /ō.dō/

odo

1. core of a syllable

   Odo sílébù

   Syllable rhyme/nucleus

• IPA^(key): /ō.dō/

odo

1. Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundata (white yam, West African yam, Guinea yam, or white ñame)

Cognate with Igbo odō and Edo odó, equivalent to o- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ dó (“to pound”)

• IPA^(key): /ō.dó/

odó

1. pounding mortar

   Synonym: ọ̀ị́ṣẹ́

   Níbo ni àwọn odó tí a máa ń lò láti gún iyán?.

   Where are the pounding mortars that we use to pound yam?

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[5], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Wọ́n ń gún iyán nínú odó.

     They were pounding pounded yam food in a pounding mortar.

• Awoyale, Yiwola (19 December 2008), Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[6], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN

odo

1. yours