Difference between revisions of "lem"

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===Verb===
 
===Verb===
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====Intransitive====
 
Make person put food for mouth [[chop]].
 
Make person put food for mouth [[chop]].
 
:* {{ux|dv|My guy, you go wait o, I wan '''lem'''.|(Egbokhare_2020, My buddy, you have to wait for me because I want to eat.)}}
 
:* {{ux|dv|My guy, you go wait o, I wan '''lem'''.|(Egbokhare_2020, My buddy, you have to wait for me because I want to eat.)}}

Revision as of 17:39, 9 March 2021

Naija

Etymology

Fom English: lem

Pronunciation

  • lém

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3582
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 3
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 14214



Verb

Intransitive

Make person put food for mouth chop.

  • My guy, you go wait o, I wan lem.  — (Egbokhare_2020, My buddy, you have to wait for me because I want to eat.)

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Translations

  • English: to eat