Given nameUnisex
Tèmiláyọ̀
/teh-mee-LAH-yaw (ọ as in "law")/
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Meaning
mine is joy
From tèmi ("what is mine") plus ní ayọ̀ ("to have joy"), which contracts to láyọ̀. Given to a child whose arrival is counted as the family's own joy.
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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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