I’m hoping you’ve had your breakfast by now. If you haven’t, you may want to pause here and do so before proceeding with the present lesson. If you have, please indulge me as I take you through a rather unpleasant topic.
Today, we are looking at the Twi names of some waste matter expelled from the human body.
| Twi | English |
|---|---|
| mfifire | sweat |
| dwonsɔ | urine |
| ntasuo | saliva |
| ɛfeɛ | vomit |
| anisuo | tear |
| ɛta/mframa bɔne | fart |
| mogya |
blood (e.g. in menstruation; nsabuo) |
|
hwennorɔ (through the nostrils) ahorɔ (general) | phlegm/sputum |
| amamman/amman | mucous |
|
ahobaa/barima ho nsuo nkwaboa (plural: nkwammoa) |
ejaculate/seminal fluid sperm(s) |
| agyanan | faeces |
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STEPHEN AWIBA, known by his students as TIKYA YAW, is the founding editor of LEARNAKAN.COM and MYTWIDICTIONARY.COM. He was born and raised in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital of Ghana, where Akan (Asante Twi) is spoken as the first language. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics and Theatre Arts from the University of Ghana and an MPhil in English Linguistics and Language Acquisition from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
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