1.(patrilineage); sublineage

2.(= ogbè) ‘village’; a constituent part of a ‘quarter’ which is itself part of a ‘town’ (òbòdò), containing a number of patrileages (ụmù nnà)

3.half-brothers and/or sisters; relatives (viewed collectively); family; extended family

4.localized patrilineage; a fluid term applied narrowly to children of the same father but different mothers and widely to the patrilineal members, real or putative, whom one cannot marry; sometimes loosely applied to all the members of the village-group as opposed to other village-groups; as a 1965 39-40) residence unit, consists of a number of compounds (Uchendu, 1965: 39-40)

5.in the Onitsha area, a unit of which several make up an ogbè ('village') and which is itself subdivided into ebo