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*    creasing difficulties. There are

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*    eight innings in this game which

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*    is also played by adults; if a

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*    man goes through the whole of

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*    it without a mistake, his op-

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*    ponent must start once again;

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*    v. isɛ n-afi [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ]; omunya [ ˩ ˩ / ]

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*    (7th innings); axĩaʋ̃a [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] (8th

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*    innings); gi-a do fi-ayo [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˦ ˦ ˩ ]

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*    let’s (come and) play ayo! cf.

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*    Yor. ayo [ ˧ ˩ ].

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*aza 1 [ ˥ ˩ ] store-room in the house.

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*aza 2 [ ˥ ˩ ] long bell always found

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*    hanging over the image of a god.

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*aza 3 [ ˥ ˩ ] a creeper, Mussaenda

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*    elegans; chewed by “doctors”

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*    to enable them to tell the future.

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*Azama [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] a deity (or deities?) of

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*    the Ɔba.

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*azãna [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] boar (bush and do-

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*    mestic).

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*azɛ [ ˩ ˩ ] fee, e.g. for a native doc-

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*    tor, or somebody looking after a

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*    woman in childbirth, or even for

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*    somebody to whom one owes a

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*    new position.

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*azɛ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ] (1) witch (eating the souls

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*    of people); witches are also

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*    called iɽ̃ã n-exwa [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] “the

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*    big ones”, iɽ̃ã n-ixĩ-ãsɔ̃ [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ]

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*    “they who walk at night”, iɽ̃ã

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*    n-is-ɔʋ̃a ( [ / ]) [ ˥ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ] “they

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*    who pass a man” (i.e. in

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*    seniority, rank, power), and iɽ̃ã

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*    n-ir-abutete (re [ ˥ ]) [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˩ ˩ ]

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*    “they who are on the edges of

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*    the road”. (2) a man whose magic

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*    kills people. (3) people who are

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*    unforgiving and revengeful; such

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*    as try to poison others; cf. Yor.

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*    ajɛ [ ˩ / ]; v. ɔʋ̃ababe [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].

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*azi [ ˥ ˩ ] adze (used for smoothing

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*    wood) (a word used in timber-

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*    camps). Engl.?

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*azimɔmɔ [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] a tree, Pachystela

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*    micrantha; its strong, durable

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