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*    your appearance pleases me very

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*    much (attracts me); cf. [ / ].

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*ixã [ ˩ ˩ ] bad smell (used as a com-

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*    plement of the verb wia [ / ]);

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*    in human beings it is attributed

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*    to the individual not having

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*    heen properly washed after his

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*    birth; it also refers to the smell

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*    of some animals, e.g. the rat

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*    oxã [ ˩ ˩ ]. Other bad smells are

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*    ɛwia [ ˥ ˩ ]; cf. oxã [ ˩ ˩ ]: v. nwihĩ

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ].

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*ixaɽo [ ˥ \ ˩ ] tribal marks on the

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*    forehead used by men (a vanish-

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*    ing custom) and women; cf. aɽo

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*    [ ˩ ˩ ]: v. iwu 1 [ ˩ ˩ ].

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*ixi [ ˩ ˩ ] revenge; cf. iriaixi [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ];

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*    v. ria [ / ].

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*ixiã [ ˩ ˥ ] transformation, spec. into

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*    an animal, etc. by magic; ixiã

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*    m-ohã gbe [ ˩ ˥ ˦ (3-1) ˥ ] transformation

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*    is terrible ( “frightens much”);

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*    cf. xiã [ / ].

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*ixiaʋo [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] Ocro, Hibiscus escu-

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*    lentus; the best species is: ixiaʋ-

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*    eʋu [ ˥ ˥ ˩ \ ] “mist-ocro”, i.e. ocro

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*    planted during the time when

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*    mist falls (from September to

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*    February). Probably of foreign

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*    (Port. ?) origin; v. ɔɽa [ ˩ ˥ ],

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*    ohukpɔ [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ], gbe [ ˥ ].

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*ixiɛ(e)gbe [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] mourning; affliction

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*    (Akugbe, but there written

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*    without the e- following ixiɛ-);

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*    ixiɛegbe keʋ-irioya ɽuɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ / ]

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*    “your affliction and disgraced

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*    state” (Akugbe); cf. xiɛ [ / ],

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*    egbe [ ˩ ˥ ].

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*ixiʋ̃i [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] a tree, Newbouldia

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*    laevis; it is believed to be the

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*    oldest tree in the world; planted

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*    as inyatɔ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] at every newly

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*    founded village or “camp” (agɔ

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ]), and used in the composi-

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*    tion of the shrines of all the gods

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*    (but not of erha [ ˥ ˥ ] and iye [ ˥ ˥ ]).

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