• IPA^(key): /ˈolu/ [ˈʔɔlʊ]
• Hyphenation:o‧lu

ólu m 

1. shrubbery

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015)L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

olu

1. pumpkin

• Pat Lillie,Amaimon Organised Phonology Data (2001)

olu

1. (emphatic)they,them

• u

FromProto-Finnic*olo, fromolema(“to be”) +‎-u.

olu (genitiveolu,partitiveolu)

1. existence
2. essence
3. circumstance,circumstances (often in the plural)

• ol

Based onilu(“he, him”) andelu(“she, her”) +‎-u(“denoting a person”).

olu (pluraloli)

1. it,that

• oli(“they, them”)(neuter)

• lu(“he, him, she, her, it, that”)
• ilu(“he, him”)(masculine)
• elu(“she, her”)(feminine)

Personal pronouns inIdo

		singular			plural
		nominative	possessive		nominative	possessive
			singular	plural		singular	plural
first person		me	mea	mei	ni	nia	nii
second person	formal	vu	vua	vui	vi	via	vii
	familiar	tu	tua	tui
third person	masculine	ilu,il	ilua	ilui	ili	ilia	ilii
	feminine	elu,el	elua	elui	eli	elia	elii
	neuter	olu,ol	olua	olui	oli	olia	olii
	common	lu	lua	lui	li	lia	lii
	reflexive	su	sua	sui	su	sua	sui
indefinite		onu,on	onua	onui	onu,on	onua	onui

• The possessive plurals are seldom used.
• The shortened forms are preferred.
• The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios.

Proposed to derive fromProto-Yoruboid*ó-lũ orProto-Yoruboid*o-rũ. Cognate withYorubaoorun

• IPA^(key): /ó.lū/

ólu

1. sleep,slumber,nap

• l'olu(“tosleep”)
• ólu-ẹja(“to sleep with your eyes barely closed”)

• John Idakwoji (2015 February 12)An Ígálá-English Lexicon, Partridge Publishing Singapore,→ISBN

Inherited fromPortugueseolho.

olu

1. eye

olu f

1. inflection ofola:
   1. accusative/instrumentalsingular
   2. genitiveplural

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ôːlu]

ôlu

1. this;class 11 proximal demonstrative.

• elú(Ifẹ̀)

Cognate withIgalaónú andItsekiriolú

• IPA^(key): /ō.lú/

olú

1. leader,head,chief;prominent one,hero

   Synonyms:ọwá,ọba,ọlọ́jà,elú

2. A commonprefix forYorubagivennames andsurnames, seeOlú

• olúwa(“lord, husband”)
• Olúwa(“God”)
• Olú

Not related toIgalaóru (which instead is cognate with Yorubaosun,esunsun). Unclear if this etymology is related to Etymology 1. Possibly related toIgboeru

• IPA^(key): /ō.lú/

olú

1. mushroom,fungi, ortoadstool

   Synonyms:osun,esunsun,àṣẹ̀ṣẹ́

• olú-ọrán
• olúwon̄gaga

• IPA^(key): /ò.lú/

òlú

1. (Ekiti, Usẹn)how much

   Synonym:èló

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