Ifáṣeyí
/ee-FAH-sheh-YEE/
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Meaning
Ifá did this one
From Ifá (the oracle divinity) plus ṣe "to do, to make" plus èyí "this one", so the child's arrival is the thing Ifá did. Given in Ifá-devoted families to a child whose birth is credited to the oracle, often following divination.
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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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