Ìwà adìẹ ní ńwí pé ká tu ìyẹ́ ẹ̀.
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Original
Ìwà adìẹ ní ńwí pé ká tu ìyẹ́ ẹ̀.
Glosa literal
- Ìwà adìẹ the-chicken's behaviour ní ńwí pé is-what says that ká tu ìyẹ́ ẹ̀ we-should pluck its feathers.
Inglés idiomático
"It is the chicken's behavior that caused its wing feathers to be plucked."
La fuente no nombra a ningún traductor.
Qué significa
Conduct brings its own punishment.
Se usa cuando
Said of someone whose trouble is traceable to their own behaviour rather than to malice from others. Owomoyela's note, truncated in the source used here, begins "People by their..."
Notas sobre la traducción
Wing feathers are clipped to stop a chicken flying out of the compound, so the punishment is precisely a loss of the freedom the bird abused. That fit between offence and penalty is the point and the translation does not carry it.