ọya

• ọ́yáà

From Proto-Yoruboid *ɔ́-yà. Cognate with Yoruba aya and the Ekiti Yoruba form, ọyà

• IPA^(key): /ɔ́.jà/

ọ́yà

1. wife

• John Idakwoji (12 February 2015) An Ígálá-English Lexicon, Partridge Publishing Singapore, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀.jà/

ọ̀yà

1. cane rat, grasscutter

   Synonyms: ewújù, òkúrù

• òdù ọ̀yà

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀.jà/

ọ̀yà

1. labor

   Synonym: iṣẹ́

• owó ọ̀yà (“wage”)
• ìsanwó-ọ̀yà

ọ̀- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ ya (“to tear, to split”)

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀.jā/

ọ̀ya

1. something that is forked

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀.jā/

ọ̀ya

1. someone who is castrated, eunuch

   Synonym: òkóbó

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *ɔ-yà, from Proto-Edekiri *ɔ-yà, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *ɔ́-yà.

• ayà (Ekiti)
• aya

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̄.jà/

ọyà

1. (Ekiti, Owe) wife

   Synonyms: ọbị̀nrịn, ọbụ̀rịn, abílékọ

• Not used by speakers of Ekiti dialect in the southern part of the region, including speakers of the Akure sub-dialect