WikiWord

Yao (Africa)

lyalyasya

verb

Meaning

  1. to be two-faced
  2. to be deceitful
  3. to be smooth-tongued

Etymology / origin

Potentially from -lyalya (“to be greedy”). Hetherwick translates the verb as "to be smooth-tongued", which could be what the Yao verb is getting at.

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