alẹ

Cognate with Igala ánẹ́, equivalent to a- (“non-gerundive nominalizing prefix”) +‎ lẹ́ (“to approach the night, to be at dusk”).

• IPA^(key): /ā.lɛ́/

alẹ́

1. evening, night (7pm to 10pm)
2. (idiomatic, euphemistic) one's deathbed, the end of one's life

Cognate with Igala ánẹ̀ and possibly Igbo ala, Igbo ànị̀, Igbo ànà, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *á-lɛ̀, possibly related to dawn breaking over the land, see Igala nẹ̀

• ilẹ̀
• ulẹ̀

• IPA^(key): /ā.lɛ̀/

alẹ̀

1. land, earth, soil

   Synonyms: erùpẹ̀, iyẹ̀pẹ̀, ekuru

2. country, homeland

• alálẹ̀ (“guardian spirit of a town; ancestor”)
• alẹ̀-odò (“bedrock”)
• Alẹ̀ (“personification of the land as a female deity”)