Ìkórira Explained: Meaning, Morphology & Usage (Yoruba Lesson)

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:16]eor that's the word for hatred in English though in Euroba two ways to actually break this word down for proper understanding and when to use it Uh because we as a people using saying words goes beyond um just saying it. You know it has meaning This word co is to to pack you know pack something pack my clothes. So the word co is to pack to pack to gather co. Now the word eerie airy is death.

[00:01:28]Eerie is death. So you know in Euroba you have another word for death. We will say death. We say hid. So is just English a bridge word for for death. So is uh is English. So when you say you're actually saying death. So uh but the actual word for uh death is in fairy that thing that you don't want to see. So when you say this, you are saying that thing I don't want to see.

[00:02:05]So you see on your clutch you say oh got that thing that you don't want to see.

[00:02:11]Then the word ar is body.

[00:02:19]Now this area also means something else.

[00:02:24]That dirt that you see on your skin.

[00:02:26]Let's say someone has not had the batch for 3 days or stuff that you when you scrub yourself that stuff that comes out that you know very bad smells and stuff that is eerie.

[00:02:42]So when you say that you don't want to see from your body this this so if I have not had my bath for a period of time now you know the accumulation accumulation of deaths on the body. So you you you you scrubbing it, you'll be seeing it coming out, right? That's you don't want to see it. So when you say the act of packing the debts on someone's body, right? So Euroba sees it more as when you ate some because when you eat someone you see the person and you be like I will kill you I will do this and because you have you sees it that you are packing the debts on the on the person on yourself. So the person is enjoying himself. You're the one that is killing yourself on what you term to be um bad thing that the person has done to you that make you come to the position of you know not wanting to see the person or wanting to uh to not talk to the person then that's the word co the word co means to meet or encounter.

[00:04:07]That's why you say that means co means to meet someone. Now when you then say whether you say that means the packing on of another person's debt another person's um you know bad behavior on yourself or co which means to meet the debt on of another person. In other words, you see me as a good person. Now you have encountered a other side of me that you perceive that wo so can do something like this that is the act of meeting that the shortcoming the shortfall or the negative aspect of another person. So you that you that doesn't resonate with you and you NOW BE LIKE AH I will never talk to this person again this person. So in in both the word for I mean say hatred whether is the one that you meet is that you are the one injuring yourself when you say you hit someone because you've Let the side of that person that makes you not that makes you sad that makes you become so uh discomfort and the person probably is enjoying himself that have met the of that person the person doesn't care right so he's having fun he's enjoying his life or her life right so Euroba says that when you say you hate someone That means when you hit someone, you're the one that is injuring yourself. So if you say you ate me now, come on. I don't even know you.

[00:06:25]Or I say I ate you. Now you're in your house eating, drinking, and enjoying life. I'm the one that is screaming. I wanted to to to to injure myself for for nothing. Right? So Euroba does not encourages us that if when you say I hate you, it means you are packing the debt on that person. You are on yourself which is bad. So I hate you. I don't hate you.

[00:07:02]Why do you hate me?

[00:07:05]bikini, you know.

[00:07:09]All right. So, use it in five sentences.

[00:07:11]Let me see what you have. Boom.