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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
* [ ˩ ˥ ˦ \ ˥ ˩ ˥ \ ˩ ˥ ] 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);