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    creasing difficulties. There are
    eight innings in this game which
    is also played by adults; if a
    man goes through the whole of
    it without a mistake, his op-
    ponent must start once again;
    v. isɛ n-afi [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ]; omunya [ ˩ ˩ / ]
    (7th innings); axĩaʋ̃a [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] (8th
    innings); gi-a do fi-ayo [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˦ ˦ ˩ ]
    let’s (come and) play ayo! cf.
    Yor. ayo [ ˧ ˩ ].
    
aza 1 [ ˥ ˩ ] store-room in the house.
    
aza 2 [ ˥ ˩ ] long bell always found
    hanging over the image of a god.
    
aza 3 [ ˥ ˩ ] a creeper, Mussaenda
    elegans; chewed by “doctors”
    to enable them to tell the future.
    
Azama [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] a deity (or deities?) of
    the Ɔba.
    
azãna [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] boar (bush and do-
    mestic).
    
azɛ [ ˩ ˩ ] fee, e.g. for a native doc-
    tor, or somebody looking after a
    woman in childbirth, or even for
    somebody to whom one owes a
    new position.
    
azɛ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ] (1) witch (eating the souls
    of people); witches are also
    called iɽ̃ã n-exwa [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] “the
    big ones”, iɽ̃ã n-ixĩ-ãsɔ̃ [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ]
    “they who walk at night”, iɽ̃ã
    n-is-ɔʋ̃a (sɛ [ / ]) [ ˥ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ] “they
    who pass a man” (i.e. in
    seniority, rank, power), and iɽ̃ã
    n-ir-abutete (re [ ˥ ]) [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˩ ˩ ]
    “they who are on the edges of
    the road”. (2) a man whose magic
    kills people. (3) people who are
    unforgiving and revengeful; such
    as try to poison others; cf. Yor.
    ajɛ [ ˩ / ]; v. ɔʋ̃ababe [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].
    
azi [ ˥ ˩ ] adze (used for smoothing
    wood) (a word used in timber-
    camps). Engl.?
    
azimɔmɔ [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] a tree, Pachystela
    micrantha; its strong, durable