Many folk etymologies exist, the most widespread of them suggests it derives fromìgá(“estate, enclosure”) +álá(“sheep”), literally“Sheep pen”. Another possible origin is from the nameỌ́gáláà, a founder of the Igala people.
Ígáláà
- Igala(people or ethnicity)
- Igala(language)
2015 February 12, John Idakwoji,An Ígálá-English Lexicon, Partridge Publishing Singapore,→ISBN, page288:Ẹ̀ chee gb'Ígáláa?- Do you understandIgala?
- ánẹ́ Ígáláà(“Igala homeland; Igala kingdom”)
- Àtá Ígáláà(“Attah; the traditional ruler of the Igala people”)
- Ígálámẹ̄la(“The nine ancestral original clans of the Igala”)
