What agwọ means
- agwọ Oral literature
- snakeUse it for a snake. It turns up in proverb after proverb about care and caution.
How to say it
Say it as á-gwọ́. Keep gw together before the dotted ọ.
Igbo is tonal, so pitch can change a word’s meaning. The marks above show this reading.
agwọ in a sentence
- agwọ ojiia black snake
- Agwọ dị n’ọhịa.There is a snake in the bush.
- Otu onye rie agwọ, ya agwọrọ ya n’afọ.Taking everything for yourself can have a cost.