object and possessive pronoun;
it has, besides, the forms: ɛe,
ɛ̃ɽ̃ɛ̃, ɛ̃; ɔɽe, ɔe, ɔ̃ɽ̃ɛ̃, ɔɛ̃.
ɛɽeɽe [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] flute.
ɛɽɛ [ ˥ ˩ ] to-day; ɛɽɛ na ɔre [ ˥ / ˩ ˥ \ ]
to-day he came.
Ɛɽibo [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] the second senior chief
in the Iwebo [ ˩ \ ˩ ]-society.
Ɛɽiyo [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] a chief, head of the
Umodu [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ]-sib at Usɛ̃ [ ˥ ˥ ].
ɛɽo [ ˥ ˥ ] part of trap: that part of
a rope (when used in a trap)
which entraps the victim.
ɛɽo [ ˥ ˩ ] watchfulness; occurs in
sĩ [ ˥ ] ɛɽo [ ˥ ˩ ] and yi [ ˥ ] ɛɽo
[ ˥ ˩ ] “to watch, to observe”.
Ɛɽo [ ˩ ˥ ] title of a chief, member
of the Uzama [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ]; cf. isĩeʋ̃iɛɽo
[ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].
ɛɽoɽo [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] a smail four-cornered
bell; it is found on several
shrines of gods, e.g. on those of
Ɔvia [ ˩ ˥ ] and Ɔxwahɛ [ ˩ / ˩ ], but
also on the ancestral shrine.
ɛɽoxĩ [ ˥ / ˩ ] chameleon. There is a
tradition that the chameleon
was present when the earth was
created; therefore it walks care-
fully in order not to break it;
ɔmaɛ n-ɛɽoxĩ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ] lit. “the
chameleon-age”, describes that
age when man can only walk a
few paces without stopping for
breath.
ɛɽu [ ˩ ˩ ] female of ɛrhuɛ [ ˩ ˥ ]-
antelope.
ɛɽuʋɔ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] river-tortoise, same as
elukeluke [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ ]; in stories it is
the female of egwi [ ˩ ˥ ].
ɛɽ̃ĩ [ ˩ ˩ ] a small kind of squirrel
with bulging eyes.
ɛɽ̃iʋ̃i [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] (1) world of the dead and
the unborn; Osa [ ˩ ˩ ] and the
other gods reside there as well as
the ɛhis [ ˩ ˩ ] and the dead people.
