dirodiro
Yoruba
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[edit]dirodiro
- (of motion) swinging; dangling; hanging
- 2000, ““Ẹyẹ Tó Lẹ́wà Jù Lọ Tó Ń Gbé Inú Igbó””, in ÀKÁ ÌWÉ ORÍ ÍŃTÁNẸ́Ẹ̀TÌ ti Watchtower[1]:
- Mo rí eku kékeré kan tó ń fì dirodiro láàárín àwọn èékánná rẹ̀ bó ṣe rọra ń fò lọ sókè rẹ̀mùrẹmu bó ti ń lo àwọn apá rẹ̀ tó fẹ̀ tó ogóje sẹ̀ǹtímítà láti ìkángun apá kan dé ìkejì.
- I could clearly see a little rodent hanging in his talons as he moved upward in slow, imposing flight upon huge wings that stretched 50 inches [140 cm] from wing tip to wing tip.