Ọmọ́wùnmí
/aw-MAW-wun-MEE/
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Meaning
a child is what pleases me
From ọmọ (child) + wù (to please, to appeal to) + mí (me), so the name says a child is what I desired. It is given by parents who longed for a child, often after waiting for one.
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.
This entry is a hypothesis awaiting its people. If your family tells it differently, that difference is exactly what we want.
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