Ọyẹku

Etymology
Folk etymology suggests it comes from. It is a possibility that the root term may relate to (to die) as the second part of the term stays relatively consistently throughout Volta-Niger languages, and kwu or ku is generally associated with old roots for death, however, in some cognate terms, it changes, so that assertion is unlikely, but possible. See 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Proposed to be derived from

Proper noun

 * 1) The second principal sign of the Ifa divination system
 * 2) The second of the  or sixteen categories in the, consisting of the second principal chapter,  and the other fifteen chapters of Ọ̀yẹ̀kú (beginning with ).
 * 3) The second chapter of the  corpus, and one of the major
 * 4) The spirit and divinity associated with the Ọ̀yẹ̀kú divination sign
 * 1) The spirit and divinity associated with the Ọ̀yẹ̀kú divination sign
 * 1) The spirit and divinity associated with the Ọ̀yẹ̀kú divination sign