Difference between revisions of "pikin"
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# Egbokhare (frequency:Inf) | # Egbokhare (frequency:Inf) | ||
Revision as of 17:34, 31 August 2020
Naija
Alternative forms
- pickin 0.77 840, pikini
Etymology
Borrowed from Krio
Pronunciation
- pìkîn
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 115
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 124
- Frequency in raw corpus: 4969
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 80
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Definition
- pikin: child -- Person wey be sey na one mile and pile born
Noun
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Di gumbody country dem sign sey dem go respect di right of di pikin dem. — no translation
- - (frequency:1046)
- Pikin go get… — (JOS_09_Wife-And-Mother-In-Law_M__57, A child will have...)
- How dat pikin… — (WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__83, How will that child...)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- children 0.75 1537, blood
Translations
- English: child