Tìwà tìwà là ńràjò.
Character as the ground of a person
Original
Tìwà tìwà là ńràjò.
Glosa literal
- Tìwà tìwà with-character with-character là ńràjò is-how we travel.
Inglés idiomático
"It is in the company of one's character that one goes on a journey."
La fuente no nombra a ningún traductor.
Qué significa
Character travels with you.
Se usa cuando
Owomoyela: "No one leaves his or her character at home when venturing abroad" Spoken to someone who assumes a new town or a new post will let them start clean.
Notas sobre la traducción
The reduplicated tìwà tìwà is an intensive, roughly "character and nothing but," and it has no English equivalent that is not clumsy. Compare entry 7, which makes the identical point with a habit rather than a character.