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If death were to brino forth blossom a child should not pluck it | Tsutsu la koro dzakangi a fe wun a |
Prosperity causes the house to be rebuilt | Aziki la mi ye tu o |
If a person sleeps before yoii he will waken before | Eza a lele ke o wun a sale ke o |
null | you |
A leopard is never too old to catch goat | Nampa kuku ii won na mi bo a |
A hungry person does not know poisoned food | Madag-unci u kpe je asamu ye a |
The market noise will never kill a tree | Mita dzuko wun a wu cigban a |
A stranger is never of the same standing as one who is born in the town | Ega u kun egi na a ma ezi o na a |
A person is never so tall that he can be seen from here to the next town it is his name that goes | Eza awunkpa daga zi babo a le u ye ezi ndoci bo a smia tsa a lo bo |
Two greybeards do not follow one another for | Nukpanyi guba a lamitu dozi banza a |
null | nothing |
If you are to take money on a journey the money decides about the preparation for it | Ezi na we a la wo lo na ewo ga wun siri wun o |
The eye sees but cant take away | Eye leye wun a la wun a |
When a hook is a long time in the water if it doesnt bring up a fish it will bring up weeds | Groro ga agaka nuwon kaga u zin be nyika nyi a wun a zin be nyasa nyi |
No one who trusts in God will ever fall | A kpetso Soko nikin nyi a |
They dont open a crocodiles stomach in fiont of children | A la kasa gbako eye dzakan bo a |
The world remains the same it is only the times that change | Yize si bo si ama kami tsa yi titi o |
The colour of the garment that the chameleon sees is what it imitates it cant imitate the garments in a hamper | Ewo iia giama leye na wuii ga wun esa o wuii esa ewo koiido a |
You took me to the market-place and stripped me of my clothing and now you say you will reclothe me up a lane {i e as the punishment was public so ought the reparation to be | Wo la mi da gban da fa de we ci ga we a be a de dzu nil efogi o |
When two expert warriors join battle the vultures will go to sleep hungry | Egba guba ta daga gulu a le mada |
When the calabash breaks the pot laughs and when the pot breaks the calabash laughs | Evo ala dukun ematsa dukun ga ala evo matsa |
A child is like a camels neck it goes where it | Egi kpatsiin rakun u yi o ba na aba u na wun a ta nya u lo |
null | pleases |
A very shrewd person cannot be caught and put in a calabash | Eza na aga yeka na u ye din da evo bo a |
The red monkey still continues to have red young ones | Dzuru dzuru ebe yi ma re o |
The bird that calls the rain will get wet itself | Elu na eyi ele na ele a wu wuntso |
A child from a far-off country and a stay-at-home old man can both tell very interesting stories | Bzakangi nya ba kpako be niisa nyi nya dana nini etakpin a gangani u yi o |
The work says it isnt afraid of the strong man it is the weak man that it fears | Etun ga u sunda kagboci a bolanci tsa wun esunda o |
There it goes catch it | Lo na won u be |
A spotted calabash went across the Niger | Voda yeregi pa du tu |
There is a tree standing in my fathers compound when it sheds its leaves they fall outside they dont fall inside | Cigban ndoci gi emi tacin nya nda mi bo u ga kun finni de bo wun a kun lo wun a kun zi mi bo a |
A little mallet pounded the road [all the way] to Hausaland | Epagi pa ba lo Keni |
My father has one lamp but when he lights it the whole world is lighted up | Nda mi de fitila nini u ga la na da u yize kpata le ba ye |
The shavings are worth more than the canoe Ans The tail of a parrot | Cikara de wo ga ya |
The gatekeeper in Hausaland does not want money he wants only a dance | Bampaci yeko Keiii u cin wo a enya u cin o |
The butcher in Hausaland does not want the meat only the tail | Mafwoci Keni u cin naka a cintara u cin o |
Grandmother is sitting at the back of the room yet her hair comes right outside | Nnako si kata tako o enyi u be de |
Baked beans | Kpiaria |
Cover | Kpere |
Piece | Kpere |
To straight up to stand erect | Kpetu |
Very coarse sleeping mat | Kpenbo |
To differ | Kperi |
To lean against | Kpetso |
To explain | Kpeye |
To far away from | Kpeya |
Very dirty | Kpyatia |
Very Small | Kpyaca |
Knowledge learning | Kpikpe |
To chip or break off | Kpin |
Four hundred | Kpoba |
To yell to roar to call out | Kpogun |
Medicine or charm said to cause one to vanish | Kpogungi |
Empty | Kokoro |
Murder | Kponu |
Of courseEbo | Kpoyin |
person | Eza |
canoe | eya |
friend | Eya |
knife | ebi |
kola nut | Ebi |
load | kara |
mat | zogun |
room | Kata |
build | tuba |
steal | yi |
house | Emi |
thing | enya |
firm | lati |
horse | doko |
mother | Nna |
father | nda |
Hausa | Kenchi |
Yoruba | Eyagi |
woman | nyizagi |
man | bagi |
ten | guwo |
fowl | Bishe |
white | Bokun |
many | dokun |
child | Egi |
to eat | gi |
to agree | ye |
to begin | ya |
to serve | wun |
to come | be |
to drag | gba |
to take | la |
to wash | na |
to enter | lo |
to extinguish | nu |
to kill | zun |
to be complete | gun |
The one who died first is the one who is dragging | Za ua tsu na wuu ga edin zezi ke na gwa o |
null | down the rest |
An onion does not take tue character of water ie | Alubasa wuu ego li uya nuwon a |
null | a child is not always like its parents |
They dont teacli old people how to take food cp | A wu nusa ga tsuu gi a |
null | Dont teach your grandmother etc |
Can a person talk with a dry mouth ? ie a person | Ajin a ta ga mi kansana ? |
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