cretly” according to the con-
text; inwin-iɽ̃ã fɛko fo [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ / ˥ ]
their work is getting slowly
finished; fɛko [ ˩ \ ] gently!
(“softly softly”).
fɛɽɛfɛɽɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] very sharp; accom-
panies the verb mu 2 [ ˥ ]; v.
ʋɛɽɛʋɛɽɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].
fi [ ˥ ] (1) to throw; combinations
with verbs: fi [ ˥ ] dɔ̃ [ ˥ ] to miss;
to mistake; ahoa n-ikɔ̃ɽ̃ɛ̃-nwa,
ifi‿ɛe dɔ̃ [ ˥ ˩ ˥ / ˩ \ ˩ ˥ / ˦ ] lit. “the
hawk I just aimed at, I missed
it”; v. zĩ‿ãɽo [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ]. fi [ ˥ ] fi [ ˥ ] to
throw something into; ɔfi‿ɛe fi
oha [ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ˩ ˥ ] he threw it into the
bush. fi [ ˥ ] gbe [ ˥ ] to throw
something at...; ɔfi‿ɛe gbe ʋ̃ɛ
[ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ˥ ] he threw it at me. fi [ ˥ ]
gb-ua [ ˥ ] (gbe [ ˥ ] ɽua [ ˥ ]) to shoot
dead. fi [ ˥ ] kui [ / ] to throw
ɛbo [ ˩ \ ] at a man. fi [ ˥ ] xɛ [ / ]
to throw ɛbo [ ˩ \ ] on the road
(same as gbe [ / ] xɛ [ / ]). Com-
binations with nouns: fi‿agba
[ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] to summon a meeting; in
a saying which occurs in a
story; but v. also tie [ / ], t-iko
[ ˩ ˥ ]. fi‿axwɛe [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] to play
marbles. fi egbe del-egbe [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ]
to transform oneself, e.g. into
an animal; v. xiã [ / ]. fi‿ema
[ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] to dig the big yam-poles
(ikpɛsi [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]) into the ground;
for the ɛɣɛ [ ˩ ˥ ]-poles it is
ba‿ema [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ], v. ba 2 [ / ]; fi [ ˥ ]
“to throw” expresses a more
forcible action than ba [ / ] “to
pierce”. fi‿eso [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] weri-egbe
[ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] “to turn some things
round”: to revise (Egh. Hist.).
fi‿exwae [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] yɔ [ \ ] to wish
something bad to a man, holding
an exwae [ ˥ ˩ ] in front of the
mouth and spitting after the
