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*    ʋ-en-aw-ɔri‿ase [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˧ (2-1) ˥ ˥ ˦ ] he be-

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*    haves (lit. “does”) as if he were

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*    right.

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*(e)ʋ- 3 (1) what (interrogative);

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*    ʋ-u-aʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ / / ] what did you

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*    get? ʋ-u-amiɛ̃ [ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] what did you

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*    see? (2) what (relative); con-

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*    structions with ʋ- in this sense

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*    are in some cases used to denote

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*    objects which in other languages

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*    would be expressed by nouns,

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*    e.g. eʋ-aɽe [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] “what one

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*    eats”: food; eʋ-axuɛ (short for

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*    eʋ-ayaxue) [ ˩ / / ] “what one

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*    takes to have a bath”: soap; to

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*    this class belongs probably also:

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*    eʋ-ariɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] (cf. riɛ [ ˥ ]?) (native)

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*    butter. (3) why (with following

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*    gu [ ˥ ] or [ ˥ ]); ʋ-ɔgu ɽu‿ɛe

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*    [ \ ˩ ˥ ˥ ] why did he do it? ( “what

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*    did he do it with, or, for”); ʋ-ɔzɛ

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*    n-ɔna ɽu‿ɛe [ \ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ (4-1) ] ( “what

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*    caused him to do it”). (4) how

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*    (interrogative); [ / ] is put at

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*    the end of the sentence: ʋ-uwa

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*    ʋiɛ [ ˩ / / / ] how have you

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*    (pl.) slept? (5) where (but cf. ʋo 1

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*    [ / ]); ʋ-u-arie [ ˩ / / ] where are

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*    you going? ʋ-u-aye [ ˩ / ˥ ] where

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*    do you live? (6) particle intro-

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*    ducing temporal relative sen-

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*    tences (v. n- 1), e.g. ugbɛ̃ (or ɛɣɛ

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*    [ ˩ ˩ ]) ʋ-ide [ ˩ ˩ ˩ / ] (at the time)

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*    when I was coming.

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*ʋa [ / ] (1) to meet; to pass on the

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*    road; iʋa-ɽe [ ˩ \ ˥ ] I met him;

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*    idiom.: ʋa ʋ-owa [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] “to meet

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*    in the house”: to deflower; v.

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*    ɔɣɛɽɛ [ ˩ \ ˩ ]. (2) to affect.

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*ʋe [ ˥ ] a conjunction linking up

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*    nouns: “and”; Ozo ʋ-Odɛ, iɽ̃ã

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*    keɣigbĩna n-owiɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˧ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˦ ]

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*    Ojo and Odɛ (they) were fighting

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*    this morning; ʋ-iɽ̃-ɔ̃gbay-

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*    ugbo [ ˩ ˥ / ˥ ˦ (4-1) ] “you and he, did

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*    you (lit. “he”) go to farm to-

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