Ilé là ńwò ká tó sọmọ lórúkọ.
Where character shows
Original
Ilé là ńwò ká tó sọmọ lórúkọ.
Word-for-word gloss
- Ilé the-house là ńwò is-what we look-at ká tó sọmọ lórúkọ before we name a-child.
Idiomatic English
"One considers the home before giving a child from it a name."
Di source no name any translator.
Wetin e mean
The household is the evidence for what the child will be.
When dem dey use am
Owomoyela: "A child's character is a good indication of the sort of home he or she comes from"
Notes on di translation
Yorùbá naming is literally descriptive, and a name given at the naming ceremony records circumstances of the lineage and the birth, so "considering the house" is a real procedural step and not a metaphor. The proverb is then used metaphorically for any judgement that should take origins into account.