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*    mean “carefully” or even “se-



*    cretly” according to the con-



*    text; inwin-iɽ̃ã fɛko fo [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ / ˥ ]



*    their work is getting slowly



*    finished; fɛko [ ˩ \ ] gently!



*    (“softly softly”).



*fɛɽɛfɛɽɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] very sharp; accom-



*    panies the verb mu 2 [ ˥ ]; v.



*    ʋɛɽɛʋɛɽɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].



*fi [ ˥ ] (1) to throw; combinations



*    with verbs: fi [ ˥ ] dɔ̃ [ ˥ ] to miss;



*    to mistake; ahoa n-ikɔ̃ɽ̃ɛ̃-nwa,



*    ifi‿ɛe dɔ̃ [ ˥ ˩ ˥ / ˩ \ ˩ ˥ / ˦ ] lit. “the



*    hawk I just aimed at, I missed



*    it”; v. zĩ‿ãɽo [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ]. fi [ ˥ ] fi [ ˥ ] to



*    throw something into; ɔfi‿ɛe fi



*    oha [ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ˩ ˥ ] he threw it into the



*    bush. fi [ ˥ ] gbe [ ˥ ] to throw



*    something at...; ɔfi‿ɛe gbe ʋ̃ɛ



*    [ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ˥ ] he threw it at me. fi [ ˥ ]



*    gb-ua [ ˥ ] (gbe [ ˥ ] ɽua [ ˥ ]) to shoot



*    dead. fi [ ˥ ] kui [ / ] to throw



*    ɛbo [ ˩ \ ] at a man. fi [ ˥ ] xɛ [ / ]



*    to throw ɛbo [ ˩ \ ] on the road



*    (same as gbe [ / ] xɛ [ / ]). Com-



*    binations with nouns: fi‿agba



*    [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] to summon a meeting; in



*    a saying which occurs in a



*    story; but v. also tie [ / ], t-iko



*    [ ˩ ˥ ]. fi‿axwɛe [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] to play



*    marbles. fi egbe del-egbe [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ]



*    to transform oneself, e.g. into



*    an animal; v. xiã [ / ]. fi‿ema



*    [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] to dig the big yam-poles



*    (ikpɛsi [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]) into the ground;



*    for the ɛɣɛ [ ˩ ˥ ]-poles it is



*    ba‿ema [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ], v. ba 2 [ / ]; fi [ ˥ ]



*    “to throw” expresses a more



*    forcible action than ba [ / ] “to



*    pierce”. fi‿eso [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] weri-egbe



*    [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] “to turn some things



*    round”: to revise (Egh. Hist.).



*    fi‿exwae [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] yɔ [ \ ] to wish



*    something bad to a man, holding



*    an exwae [ ˥ ˩ ] in front of the



*    mouth and spitting after the