kahinkoɣu nyuli

What does “kahinkoɣu nyuli” mean in Dagbani?

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 Dagbanli — both spellings refer to the same Mabia (Gur) language spoken in northern Ghana.