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*gɔ̃gɔɔ̃gɔ̃ [ ˦ ˦ ˦ ] upright; uɽu ihue
* gɔ̃gɔɔ̃gɔ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˦ ˦ ] your nose
* stands upright (special charac-
* teristic of the European, hence
* the above sentence may be
* closed with: ʋ-ihu-ebo [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ]
* “like the nose of a white man”.
* This feature is considered as
* funny. On the other hand, an
* ibue pɛrhɛ [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] “flat nose”, said
* to be: ʋ-ihu-egwi [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] “like
* the nose of a tortoise”, is not
* thought to be beautiful, either).
*gɔlɔgɔlɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] describes the walk
* of a very tall man with the
* upper part of his body swaying;
* used with the verb xiã [ ˥ ]; cf.
* ogɔlɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]; v. lɔgiɔlɔgio [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].
*gu 1 [ ˥ ] a verb indicating (1) that
* another action is performed by
* the subject with the help of
* somebody else, or (2) that the
* action is reciprocal, e.g. gu [ ˥ ]
* b-owa [ ˩ ˥ ] to help (somebody)
* in building a house; gu [ ˥ ]
* dɛ [ ˥ ] to buy something from
* somebody; wɛ‿igu dɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] I
* bought it from you. gu [ ˥ ]
* dia [ / ] to stay with somebody
* or something, esp. in order to
* guard it, e.g. of a hunter’s boy
* who watches the kill while his
* master is in the bush. gu [ ˥ ]
* dido [ ˩ ˥ ], gu [ ˥ ] fi [ ˥ ] dɔ̃ [ ˥ ] to
* lead astray by giving false in-
* formation; v. gie 1 [ / ], ya 1 [ ˥ ].
* gu [ ˥ ] guã [ / ] to talk with
* somebody. gu [ ˥ ] gwi [ ˥ ] to
* quarrel with somebody. gu [ ˥ ]
* gbĩna [ ˩ ˥ ] to fight with some-
* body. gu [ ˥ ] ho [ / ] to help
* (somebody) to find something.
* In an impersonal use, gu means
* “to succeed”: ɔgũ ʋ̃ɛ ɽu [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˩ ]
* “it helped me to do (it)”: I
* succeed in doing (it); idiom.: