Tribe
Tonal names from southwestern Nigeria. Often praise-names or theophorics built on Olú-, Adé-, or Òní-.
287 names
Where it is spoken
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My enemies would have rejoiced over me (but God prevented it)
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Born into wealth / Born rich
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Born during a festival or celebration
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Born in wealth / Born during a wealthy era
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born into affluence
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Short form of Abosede (born on eve of the week)
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As beautiful/good as Ọ̀yọ́ town/people
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The crown meets joy / Royalty came to meet joy
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The crown gave birth to me complete
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The crown has produced more / Born into royalty
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The crown gave birth to this one
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The crown meets wealth
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The crown has returned home
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the crown or royalty became joyful
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becomes two
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The crown is renewed / Royalty is refreshed
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The crown ascends a height / Royalty rises
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The crown collectively cares for this child
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The crown fills the home / Royalty fills the family house
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The crown is commended for his/her suffering to attain the honour
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The crown triumphs over obstacles / Royal victory
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Royalty is wealthy
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The crown has reputation
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The crown is mixed with wealth
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the crown is to be cared for or treasured
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The royal family has a known ancestry; The king (or head) has a vision; or My lineage has royalty
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The crown has honor / Royalty is prestigious
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The crown has a foundation
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the crown or royalty of prestige and wealth
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Crown of chieftancy/royalty
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The crown comforts me
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The crown comforts one
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The crown offers support. Royalty surrounds me
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The crown has found something to cherish
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crown
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crown opens the way
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The crown opens the way
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The crown [as a symbol of nobility] is not unified, i.e. cannot be monopolized
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One who arrives into wealth
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The crown is worthy of joy
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the crown or royalty from across the seas (ocean) / The crown returned from across the seas / Born abroad
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The crown brought me wealth/joy
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The crown is reborn / Royalty revives
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the crown or royalty has come home
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Royalty multiplies/is influential
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The crown befits me / Worthy of the crown
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the crown or royalty befits a child
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The crown surrounds me / Royal honor encompasses me
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Perfection / Righteous or properly aligned person
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One who is sweet/pleasant to cherish
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born in wealth and high status
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One who struts with wealth
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The renowned one consoles (me)
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Circle or fold of wealth/honor
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Child born with the umbilical cord wrapped around the neck
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a child born face upwards
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one who wakes up to meet royalty
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Born to wake up into wealth/honor
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One who arrives early
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The first born / Conspicuous position
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One that is special to have
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The brave one, warrior, valor, valiant one, the hero
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The valiant one arrives/returns
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The valiant one arrives
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Valor has arrived home
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Valor walks with wealth
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With or among valor
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The valiant one didn
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Bravery or strength has returned
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bravery attracts me
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valor is worthy of the house
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Good fortune has arrived / Blessing has come
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Child born after twins
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The crowned one / Royal child
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Royalty befits me
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to be exalted high
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We are enjoying the wealth/blessings of the Lord
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We walk together
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The mercy of God is plenty
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My company, kin, or relative, has arrived
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Born into the center of wealth
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one born to shine
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Taken care of from the womb / Cherished
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The drummer mingled with royalty
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Joy
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Joy meets me / I am blessed with joy
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Joy has doubled / Second joy
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joy arrived home
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one who causes joy
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Joy fills the house
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My joy has arrived
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My joy is full
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The joy of wealth
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Joy walks in
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Joy surrounds me
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Father is renewed
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Father loves me
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Father has risen again / Grandfather reincarnated
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Father is wealth
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Father tempted me to come back
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father returns
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Follow me home
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Help me receive honour
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Build me a house
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Brilliant or follower
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Short form of Abimbola (born rich)
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Short form of Olabimpe (wealth is complete)
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Short form of Abiodun (born during festival)
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Born into wealth
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Short form of Olabode (wealth returns)
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Wake up with wealth/honor
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One who sits with wealth
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Finds wealth at home
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added wealth
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God has rewarded me / Justified me with wealth
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Surprise me / Astonish me
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God blesses me with wealth / Hold onto wealth
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Short form of Oladapo (wealth mixes together)
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One who has achieved personal goodness along with wealth
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Do good for me
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Short form of Adedayo / Oladayo (joy arrives)
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Wealth comes together / Wealth is pooled
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Hold onto the sacred Òsùn staff
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Short form of Adedotun (crown is refreshed)
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I give thanks
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Short form of Durojaiye (wait and enjoy life)
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Wait/endure to enjoy life
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Wait/endure for wealth
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Stay to bury me
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Wait to uphold royalty
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God
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The peer group has entered into the house
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Weeping has become joy
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A person of joy
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a wealthy person or an influential person
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A witness of God's love
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Beauty of the Lord.
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this (child) is enough joy
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Ifá repaid
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Ifá gathered honour
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love me
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Use this to celebrate joy
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Add to my joy / God adds to my joy
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Honor or wealth
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Cherished with wealth / Taken care of with wealth
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use wealth to pamper me
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walk with wealth
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Honor / Wealth creates a crown
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(One who) struts with nobility/dignity
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Wealth fits me / Wealth honors me
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under God
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Placed under God's protection
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Placed in God's hands or care
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Placed under God's protection / care
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Give me to be multiplied (in honour)
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Give me joy.
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God has given me to watch over
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One whose character endures for a long time
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He brought valor
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I give thanks
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I give thanks for becoming joy
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I give he/she back to the Lord
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leader
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I awoke into wealth
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I enjoy the sweetness of God
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I am complete in wealth/perfect in wealth
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I have found joy
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I am close to wealth
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Brought this
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Hunters are plenty in the family
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The Ifá corpus is enough for wealth
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Ògún has rejected (our) suffering
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Ògún cleared the path/paved the way
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Ògún has gained wealth/notability
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The Ògún (shrine) outside of the house
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Ògún of honour
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Ogun makes wealth
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Health is wealth
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Wealth has multiplied
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Wealth Comes Home
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Wealth meets wealth
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a combination of prestige, success and wealth has been mixed together (alike)
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Wealth justifies me
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Wealth becomes joy
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a combination of prestige, success and wealth arrives home
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wealth has come of age
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Wealth is renewed
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Wealth increases / God's wealth
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Wealth aligns properly into chieftaincy
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wealth is inexhaustible
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the wealth that everyone cherishes
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Wealth has increased
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a combination of prestige, success and wealth has arrived
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My wealth has increased / I have found a caretaker of riches
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Wealth is honourable
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Wealth is advancing
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The wealth/grace of God never ends
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Success waits with me, stays with me /Wealth stays with me
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nobility/wealth returns from overseas
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nobility/wealth has resurrected, has returned and becomes stronger, is reasserted
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a combination of prestige, success and wealth has arrived home
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Success has entered into sweetness
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Wealth befits me / I am worthy of wealth
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a combination of prestige, success and wealth surrounds me
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wealth mixed with more wealth.
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Short form of Olubunmi (God gave me)
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The Lord blesses me with wealth
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The Lord justifies
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God gave me to care for
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The Lord entrusts me
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My God has come / God has arrived
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God, Lord, or the prominent one brought this
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The Lord consoles me
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God stays with me
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God is victorious
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Lord
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The prominent one creates wealth
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The lord makes wealth
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God is good / God does wonderful things
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God loves me
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God cherish me
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God is my crown
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The Lord loves me
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God has conquered / God has given victory
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God has done me favour or The Lord has been good to me
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God, thank you / The Lord has done this
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The Lord does wondrous things
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God made this / God has done this
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God is the greatest king
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God is worthy to be served
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God is worthy of praise
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the prominent one enters (the house)
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The child meets honour at home
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The child is the crown
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the child is kin
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The child is joy / Child brings joy
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The child selected this house to come to
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The child is important enough to have wealth
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Ornamental work (as a profession) is agreeable to me
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I am forever grateful
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A gift from God / Grace of God
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Honour triumphs
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Chieftaincy has value
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title
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the kingship befit me
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honey mixed with wealth
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honey drips into wealth
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Wealth is honey
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the first twin to taste the world
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mine
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Mine becomes joy
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Mine has come
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God is mine
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Mine is worthy of joy
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Mine is worth celebrating
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Support me
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Mine is worthy of thanks or gratitude
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the king is worthy of praise
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returned from overseas
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sufficient for
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To God be the Glory/Thanks/Gratitude
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God's will is supreme
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Father has returned