We recite someone's praise names, we intone his attributes, and a person says he does not know who died; he hears, “Death takes a renowned man, a titled man, whose yams spread like petals, who possesses barns of corn, whose fields are a bounty for birds,” and he asks, “Is the dead man a farmer or a trader?”
À ń kì í, à ń sà á, ó ní òun ò mọ ẹni tó kú; ó ń gbọ́, “Ikú mẹ́rù, Ọ̀pàgá, a-biṣu-ú-ta-bí-òdòdó, a-lábà-ọkà, a-roko-fẹ́yẹ-jẹ”; ó ní, “Àgbẹ̀ ló kú, tàbí ọ̀nájà?”