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*    sibly identical with the one

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*    called “cutting-grass”; said to

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*    have come during the last de-

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*    cades from the grass country;

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*    N.W.Th. “badger”; cf. ato [ ˩ \ ].

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*evue [ ˥ ˥ ] a kind of ant that is

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*    found on corpses.

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*eʋa [ ˩ \ ] there; eʋa ɔsɛe [ ˩ ˥ ˥ \ ]

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*    there it ends (used at the end of

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*    stories); v. (e)ʋ 1.

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*eʋ-a-; cf. (e)ʋ- 3.

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*eʋaʋa and ebaba [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] (my) father;

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*    used as an address; cf. Yor.

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*    baba [ ˩ / ].

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*eʋ-ibi-ɔmɔ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] parents.

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*eʋoxo [ ˩ \ ˩ ] “rice-cake”; izɛ [ ˥ ˩ ] is

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*    used as well, which is, at the

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*    same time, the name of the

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*    “native rice”; the word is

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*    mostly used by sellers when

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*    praising their merchandise;

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*    doha‿eʋoxoo [ / ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] or, in an

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*    older form which is dying out,

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*    ɣoha‿eʋoxoo [ / ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] (in the pl.

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*    wa- [ ˩ ] is prefixed).

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*eʋɔ [ ˩ ˥ ] scabies.

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*eʋu [ ˩ \ ] (1) mist. (2) a woman’s

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*    name.

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*eʋ̃a [ ˩ \ ] here; v. (e)ʋ- 1.

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*eʋ̃aʋ̃a [ ˩ \ ˩ ] a man who con-

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*    tinuously looks at himself in

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*    order to see whether his clothes

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*    fit; cf. ʋ̃aʋ̃a [ ˩ ˥ ].

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*eʋ̃ɛʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] madness; eʋ̃ɛʋ̃-ɔ̃ɽ̃ɛ̃

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*    yɔ-ɽɛ [ ˩ ˩ / ˩ / / ˩ ] “his madness

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*    was quenched to-day”: he has a

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*    lucid internal; cf. ɔʋ̃ɛʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ].

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*eʋ̃i [ ˩ \ ] thing; something; with

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*    negative verb: nothing; ɔmarhi-

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*    eʋ̃i [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ / \ ] he gave him

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*    nothing. For “nothing”, eʋ̃i

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*    rhɔkpa [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] is used as well:

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*    ɔmarhi-eʋ̃i rhɔkpa [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ / \ ]

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*    he gave him nothing; eʋ̃i dã

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*    [ ˩ / ˩ ] “bad thing”: evil (Bibl.);

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*    eʋ̃ikeʋ̃i [ ˩ / ˩ \ ] everything; any-

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