Ìbùkúnlé
/ee-boo-KOON-lay/
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Meaning
blessing fills the house
From ìbùkún (blessing) joined to ilé (house, home), so the blessing is placed on the household rather than announced as an arrival. Given to a child whose birth is received as a blessing settling on the family home.
Who carries it
Provenance
- generated: 2026-08-07
- source: LLM aggregation pass, then screened by three independent reviewers for attestation, morphology and orthography (2026-08-07); unverified, awaiting community affirmation.
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