Tìwà tìwà là ńràjò.
Character as the ground of a person
Ìpilẹ̀
Tìwà tìwà là ńràjò.
Ìtumọ̀ ọ̀rọ̀-sí-ọ̀rọ̀
- Tìwà tìwà with-character with-character là ńràjò is-how we travel.
Ìtumọ̀ Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
"It is in the company of one's character that one goes on a journey."
Orísun náà kò dárúkọ ẹni tí ó túmọ̀ rẹ̀.
Ohun tí ó túmọ̀ sí
Character travels with you.
Ìgbà tí a ń lò ó
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.
Àkíyèsí lórí ìtumọ̀
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.