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*eriri 2 [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] drag-net; cf. Jekri



*    eriri [ ˧ ˥ ˥ ].



*erɔ [ ˩ ˥ ] lodging in somebody else’s



*    house for want of a house of



*    one’s own; erɔ iye [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ ] I am in



*    lodging, or a lodger; iɣ-erɔ [ ˥ ˥ ˦ ]



*    rent; v. iɣo 1 [ ˥ ˥ ]; cf. rɔ [ ˥ ‿ / ],



*    ɔɽuerɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].



*eru [ ˩ ˥ ] a rack standing on a farm,



*    or, for greater safety, in the



*    bush, on which the yam-harvest



*    is kept. It consists of several



*    main poles (utɔ̃yotɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] or



*    uke [ ˩ ˥ ]) standing at equal dis-



*    tances and supported by forked



*    branches (ikadɛlɛ [ ˥ ˩ \ ˩ ]), and



*    between these there are smaller



*    poles called ɔxɛ [ ˩ ˥ ]. The yams



*    are tied horizontally to stripped



*    palm-branches (exɔe [ ˥ ˩ ]), and



*    each row is called ugã [ ˩ ˩ ]. The



*    structure is supported by cross-



*    poles. three in number, which



*    are called ogba [ ˩ ˥ ]. In measur-



*    ing the yam-harvest, the dis-



*    tance between two main poles



*    is uhobo [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ], half the distance



*    is ɛkp-ɔxɛ [ ˥ ˥ ˦ ], that between



*    three main poles (= two uhoho)



*    is ɛwɛ [ ˩ ˩ ].



*erha [ ˥ ˥ ] father; erha ʋ̃ɛ [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ] my



*    father; erha-a [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ] your father;



*    erha-e [ ˥ \ ] his father; erha ʋ̃a



*    [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ], erh-ima [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] our father;



*    erh-uwa [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] your (pl.) father;



*    erh-iɽ̃ã [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] their father. erha



*    ʋ̃-osa [ ˥ ˩ \ ˩ ] “our father Osa”:



*    an epithet of Osa [ ˩ ˩ ]. erh-



*    odede [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] grandfather; erha



*    ʋ̃-odede [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] my grandfather;



*    also: erha ʋ̃ɛ n-ɔxwa [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ]. The



*    term may be specified: erh-erha



*    [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] father’s father; erh-iye



*    [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] mother’s father; v. umɔbɔ



*    [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]. (2) “father” as the re-



*    vered ancestor whose shrine is