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*    cup or spoon, etc.; balɔ [ ˩ ˥ ]

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*    kua [ ˥ ] to scoop...out of...;

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*    bal-amɛ kua ʋ-axe na [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ]

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*    scoop water out of this pot!

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*basabasa [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] a shrub, Funtumia

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*    africana; latex is similar to

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*    rubber and is added to rubber

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*    to increase its quantity.

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*baʋ̃a [ ˩ ˥ ] (followed by ɛʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˩ ]

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*    “word”) to tell a lie; ɔbaʋ̃a ɛʋ̃ɛ

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*    gbe [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ / ˥ ] “he tells (too)

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*    many lies (against one)”.

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*bebe [ ˩ ˥ ] to be naughty, of boys;

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*    it implies acts like touching

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*    what must not be touched,

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*    riding a bicycle on the handle,

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*    turning something over, etc.;

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*    idase [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ], however, implies

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*    something skilled, like juggling

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*    with breakable things and en-

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*    dangering them in that way.

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*b-egbe [ ˩ ˥ ]; cf. ba 1 [ ˥ ].

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* [ ˥ ] ɣe [ / ] to see; ibɛ ɣ-ɛɽe

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*    [ ˩ ˧ / ˩ ] I saw it; v. [ ˥ ] ɣe

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*    [ / ].

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* 1 [ / ] to tap palm-wine, by

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*    making incisions with a knife;

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*    ɔbɛ ɔgɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] he is tapping

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*    palm-wine (now); ɔb-ɔgɔ [ ˩ / ˩ ]

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*    he taps palm-wine: he is a palm-

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*    wine-tapper; v. so [ ˥ ].

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* 2 [ / ] to strive after the

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*    affection of young girls by

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*    giving them all they want from

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*    childhood upwards in order to

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*    marry them at the age of

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*    puberty. This does not con-

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*    stitute a betrothal.

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*bɛbɛɛbɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] describes a protruding

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*    abdomen; used with ye [ ˥ ] or ɽu

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*    [ ˥ ]; ɔɽu‿ɛko bɛbɛɛbɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ (4-1) ˩ ˩ ˩ ]

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*    he has an embonpoint.

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*bɛlɛ [ ˩ ˥ ] (1) (followed by kua [ ˥ ])

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*    to cut into slices; same as

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*    giagia [ ˩ ˥ ]; bɛl-ɔɣɛdɛ na kua

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*    [ ˩ ˩ ˩ / ˩ / ] cut this plantain into

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