palarun

Etymology
Its uniqueness to only the Àkúrẹ́ subdialect of Èkìtì and lack of semantic cognates in other Proto-Yoruba branches strongly suggests an inter-dialectal borrowing from SEY forms (likely Oǹdó) meaning "lip." Compare with Ijebu 🇨🇬, Ìkálẹ̀ 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Oǹdó 🇨🇬, The "run" part likely relates to roots for "mouth," see 🇨🇬, while ùpọ́n means "red." Thus, the word meaning "the red part of the mouth," may have caused the meaning to shift from lip to tongue. Fresco '70 also documents an attested Èkìtì form,, (which has largely been displaced by , which may suggest, along with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, a common inheritance of this root from . Also see 🇨🇬, which is likely a maintenance of the use of the term "mouth" as the base term compounded to make lip.

Further evidence that this is a borrowing can be seen from the fact that this root does not resemble any other Yoruboid root for tongue, and in fact, a synonym,, a term cognate with other dialectal words for tongue, is still used by not only other Ekiti speakers, but other speakers of the Àkúrẹ́ dialect. In addition, "palarun" does not maintain the /ʊ/ found in the word for mouth, likely suggesting the word was borrowed from a language that did not have /ʊ/ in its sound inventory (which is all the SEY dialects)

Borrowing of body parts between SEY and Àkúrẹ́ with slight semantic shifts is attested, see for example Èkìtì to Oǹdó. However this root is also found in Ìjẹ̀bú

Noun

 * 1)  tongue
 * (Oǹdó, Ìkálẹ̀)
 * (Oǹdó, Ìkálẹ̀)
 * (Oǹdó, Ìkálẹ̀)