Translation:
Water does not sour without flour.
Postproverbial:
Ba jir àm aas a ɗiiɗwang kas.
Translation:
Not all cereal drink is sour.
Comments:
The extended meaning of this proverb is that “there is no rumour without a cause’. The sense in this proverb denotes at the surface that rumour portrays negativity. However, the postproverbial gives an implicit meaning that “not all subject of rumour is negative”.
Language - Region:
mwaghavul-nigeria
Label:
Water