Ìwà adìẹ ní ńwí pé ká tu ìyẹ́ ẹ̀.
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Ìpilẹ̀
Ìwà adìẹ ní ńwí pé ká tu ìyẹ́ ẹ̀.
Ìtumọ̀ ọ̀rọ̀-sí-ọ̀rọ̀
- Ìwà adìẹ the-chicken's behaviour ní ńwí pé is-what says that ká tu ìyẹ́ ẹ̀ we-should pluck its feathers.
Ìtumọ̀ Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
"It is the chicken's behavior that caused its wing feathers to be plucked."
Orísun náà kò dárúkọ ẹni tí ó túmọ̀ rẹ̀.
Ohun tí ó túmọ̀ sí
Conduct brings its own punishment.
Ìgbà tí a ń lò ó
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..."
Àkíyèsí lórí ìtumọ̀
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.