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*    erhã [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] “wood-worm”: lar-

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*    vae of wood-beetles (?); ɔxɔ-ehe

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*    [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˥ ] “menstruation worm”:

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*    pains before menstruation.

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*ɔxɔʋ̃ɔ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] a sick person; cf.

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*    xuɔʋ̃i [ ˩ ˥ ].

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*ɔxɔxɔ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] fowl; hen; ɔxɔxɔ ʋ-ibiɛ

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˦ ] “hen and chicken”: the

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*    Pleiades (N.W.Th.).

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*ɔxuɛ̃ [ ˥ ˥ ] a tree, Brachystegia

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*    eurycoma (? F.D. list has ok-

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*    wen); very hardy, like oxixã [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ].

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*ɔxuɛ [ ˩ ˥ ] expensive food; “dandy-

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*    chop”; uri‿ɔxuɛ gbe [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˧ ] you

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*    eat too much costly food!

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*ɔxuɛ̃niɛzɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] “law-suit-answer-

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*    er”: defendant; cf. xuɛ̃niɛ [ ˩ ˥ ],

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*    ɛzɔ [ ˥ ˥ ]; v. tie [ / ].

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*Ɔxwahɛ [ ˩ / ˩ ] (1) a river. (2) an

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*    ihɛ̃ said to have been a great

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*    hero and magician during the

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*    reign of the Ɔba Ɛwuaɽe [ ˥ ˦ ˩ ].

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*    He then transformed himself

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*    into the river bearing the same

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*    name. His cult is one of the

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*    most important cults in Benin;

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*    v. ahĩaʋ̃ɛ [ ˥ (4-1) ˩ ].

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*ɔxwɛ [ ˩ ˩ ] parrot; among parrots

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*    there are believed to be some

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*    that report anything they may

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*    see in a house to witches; v.

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*    eba [ ˩ ˥ ].

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*ɔxwɛ̃xwɛ̃ [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] a thorny creeper.

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*ɔyara [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] a man who is careless

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*    in behaviour or untidy, e.g. with

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*    remains of spilt food on his

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*    garments. The reproach of being

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*    an ɔyara is mostly made towards

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*    poor people; ɔyara‿uxĩ, ɣe ʋ-uy-

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*    unwɔʋ̃ɛ fũ-egbe hia [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˦ ]

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*    “you are an untidy man, look

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*    how you have taken (ya [ ˥ ])

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*    soup smeared (fuɛ̃ [ ˥ ]) all (over)

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*    the body!”: look how you have

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*    smeared yourself all over with

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*    soup!

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