Difference between revisions of "gateman"

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==Naija==
 
==Naija==
 
===Etymology===
 
===Etymology===
Borrowed from English gateman
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From: English ''gate'' and ''man''
  
 
===Pronunciation===
 
===Pronunciation===

Revision as of 17:19, 28 January 2021

Naija

Etymology

From: English gate and man

Pronunciation

  • gètmân

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3599
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 4
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 12492

The word is used more orally than in written texts.


Noun

gateman: gatekeeper -- Definition in Naija?


  1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
    I reach im office, im gateman no allow us enter.  — no translation

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Translations

  • English: gatekeeper