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Yoruba

Etymology

Yoruba numbers ^(edit)

		10
	[a], [b] ←  0	1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: ọ̀kan, ení     Counting: oókan     Adjectival: kan, méní     Ordinal: kìíní, kìn-ín-ní     Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀kan     Distributive: ọ̀kọ̀ọ̀kan     Collective: ọ̀kọ̀ọ̀kan

Derived from owó (“cowrie”) +‎ ọ̀kan (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ōó.ꜜkã̄/

Numeral

oókan

1. one (used when counting)

   Oókan, eéjì, ẹẹ́ta, ẹẹ́rin, aárùn-ún, ẹẹ́fà...

   One, two, three, four, five, six...

   Eélòó ni oókan àti oókan? — Oókan àti oókan jẹ́ eéjì.

   How much is one plus one? — One plus one equals two.

Noun

oókan

1. kobo or cent
   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[1], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ebi kò mọ̀ pé oókan kò sí lọ́wọ́, bí ojúmọ́ bá ti mọ́, ebi a máa pani

     Hunger does not know that one is in penury, each waking day, one is bound to be hungry

     proverb on the inevitability of hunger

2. center
   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting C. L. Adéoyè, Àṣà àti Ìṣe Yoruba‎^[2], number LDC2008L03, 1979, Ibadan: Oxford University Press, page 324, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ṣẹ́ aṣọ funfun po dé oókan àyà òkú

     Fold over the white cloth to reach the center of the corpse's chest