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*    thing. eʋ̃i n-abaku ɽu [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˥ ]

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*    “things which have been done

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*    by mistake”: mistake. eʋ̃i n-ale

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*    [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] “things that are cooked”:

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*    cooking (ileʋ̃i [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] is not pos-

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*    sible). eʋ̃i n-amɔmɔɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ \ ]

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*    “things that have been lent”:

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*    loan (also eʋ-amɔmɔɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ \ ])+.

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*    eʋ̃i n-exwa [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] “the great

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*    things”: (a) the burial of an

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*    Ɔba; (b) witches; idiom.: eʋ̃i ʋ̃ɛ

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*    [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] “my child” (wife, servant).

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*    Followed by genitives: eʋ̃i‿ehɔ

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] ear-rings; more used than

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*    oɽok-ehɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˦ ]; eʋ̃i‿exue [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ]

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*    “things of shame”: disgrace;

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*    v. ɽu [ ˥ ]; eʋ̃-ĩgbĩna [ ˩ \ ˩ ˩ ]

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*    weapon, lit. “thing of fight”;

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*    eʋ̃-ĩri [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ] “thing of rope”: an

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*    animal given to a man to be

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*    taken care of; or possibly simply

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*    “domestic animal”; eʋ̃i‿okɔ

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] seed; (okɔ [ ˥ ˩ ] is not used

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*    alone); eʋ̃i‿orhɔ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] harvest;

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*    eʋ̃i ɽ-ebo [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] “thing of Euro-

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*    peans” (?): plate (ɽ is not nasa-

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*    lized); eʋ̃i‿ũgaʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ (4-1) ˩ ] “things

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*    of service”: bride-wealth;

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*    “dowry”; eʋ̃i‿ũwawa [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]

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*    palm-oil chop (v. ɔpɛxɛrhɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]).

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*    In the following cases, the con-

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*    struction seems to be a short

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*    relative sentence without the

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*    particle n-: eʋ̃i fi [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] “thing

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*    that attacks”: small-pox; eʋ̃i

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*    gb-eni [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ], “thing that has

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*    killed elephant”: toothache (not

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*    when cutting teeth); eʋ̃i r-akɔ̃

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*    [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] “thing that is in the

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*    tooth”: toothache (with children

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*    when cutting teeth); eʋ̃i r-aɽo

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*    [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] “thing that is in the eye”:

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*    yellow fever (?; also eʋ-ir-aɽo?);

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*    eʋ̃i r-ɔb-ɛʋo [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˦ ˩ ] “things that

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*    are in the Ɔba’s country”: an

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*    age-group consisting of the boys

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