A vine with a large underground tuber of no food value. The tuber consists of fibrous rings like an onion with no flesh inside. Proverb: nam-ŋmanla kahinkoɣu nyuli kinship is like k~ i.e it has rings of complexity but may turn out to be useless in the end
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What does “kahinkoɣu nyuli” mean in Dagbanli?
A vine with a large underground tuber of no food value. The tuber consists of fibrous rings like an onion with no flesh inside. Proverb: nam-ŋmanla kahinkoɣu nyuli kinship is like k~ i.e it has rings of complexity but may turn out to be useless in the end
Also spelled Dagbani — both spellings refer to the same Mabia (Gur) language spoken in northern Ghana.
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A vine with a large underground tuber of no food value. The tuber consists of fibrous rings like an onion with no flesh inside. Proverb: nam-ŋmanla kahinkoɣu nyuli kinship is like k~ i.e it has rings of complexity but may turn out to be useless in the end
Binshɛɣu din nyɛri nyuli laasabu ka di biɛhigu ŋmani alibaasa