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akpalode [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] leather “medicine”
    belt, sewn by cobblers, worn as
    a protection against charms put
    on the road and destined to
    cause diseases like elephantiasis
    or leprosy. It also protects the
    wearer from gonorrhoea, pains
    in the waist, and the influences
    of witchcraft intended to cause
    impotence.
    
akpãnɔ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] a tree, Tricalysia; its
    branches are linked to the stem
    by joints; cf. kpãnɔ [ ˩ ˥ ].
    
akpata [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] native harp; akpat-
    ebo [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] guitar; cf. Yor.
    akpata [ ˩ ˧ ˧ ].
    
akpaʋ̃ose [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] tinea.
    
akpawɛ [ ˩ ˥ (4-1) ] “if it is said”: if;
    akpawɛ ɽuɛ, iɣagu‿ɛe gbĩna
    [ ˩ ˥ ˦ (4-1) ˥ ˩ ˥ \ ˩ ˥ ] if it were not for
    you, I should have fought him;
    cf. kpa [ ˥ ], wɛ [ / ].
    
akpɛkpɛ [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] (1) platform built of
    small sticks as substitute for a
    mud-bed, e.g. in a hunting or
    working camp. (2) altar.
    
akpɛlɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] a method of divination
    similar to that known as ewawa
    [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]; but in akpɛlɛ a flat wooden
    plate is used instead of a drum,
    and the images are taken in the
    hand, not in a cup; v. iha [ ˩ ˩ ],
    ɔbo [ ˩ ˥ ].
    
akpolu [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] beads worn by women
    round the waist.
    
akpɔkɔ [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] smallest size of
    pepper; hottest sort; supposed
    to spring up from the excre-
    ments of the asɛsɛ [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ] bird.
    
alagbodɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] “pass cross road”:
    latest child of a woman who,
    at her age, might still have
    other children; also used as a
    nickname.
    
alalɔ [ ˩ \ ˩ ] a skin-disease, rashes
    (looking like patches of powder);