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*gɔ̃gɔɔ̃gɔ̃ [ ˦ ˦ ˦ ] upright; uɽu ihue

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*    gɔ̃gɔɔ̃gɔ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˦ ˦ ] your nose

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*    stands upright (special charac-

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*    teristic of the European, hence

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*    the above sentence may be

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*    closed with: ʋ-ihu-ebo [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ]

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*    “like the nose of a white man”.

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*    This feature is considered as

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*    funny. On the other hand, an

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*    ibue pɛrhɛ [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] “flat nose”, said

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*    to be: ʋ-ihu-egwi [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] “like

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*    the nose of a tortoise”, is not

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*    thought to be beautiful, either).

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*gɔlɔgɔlɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] describes the walk

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*    of a very tall man with the

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*    upper part of his body swaying;

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*    used with the verb xiã [ ˥ ]; cf.

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*    ogɔlɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]; v. lɔgiɔlɔgio [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].

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*gu 1 [ ˥ ] a verb indicating (1) that

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*    another action is performed by

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*    the subject with the help of

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*    somebody else, or (2) that the

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*    action is reciprocal, e.g. gu [ ˥ ]

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*    b-owa [ ˩ ˥ ] to help (somebody)

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*    in building a house; gu [ ˥ ]

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*     [ ˥ ] to buy something from

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*    somebody; wɛ‿igu [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] I

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*    bought it from you. gu [ ˥ ]

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*    dia [ / ] to stay with somebody

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*    or something, esp. in order to

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*    guard it, e.g. of a hunter’s boy

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*    who watches the kill while his

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*    master is in the bush. gu [ ˥ ]

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*    dido [ ˩ ˥ ], gu [ ˥ ] fi [ ˥ ] dɔ̃ [ ˥ ] to

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*    lead astray by giving false in-

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*    formation; v. gie 1 [ / ], ya 1 [ ˥ ].

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*    gu [ ˥ ] guã [ / ] to talk with

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*    somebody. gu [ ˥ ] gwi [ ˥ ] to

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*    quarrel with somebody. gu [ ˥ ]

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*    gbĩna [ ˩ ˥ ] to fight with some-

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*    body. gu [ ˥ ] ho [ / ] to help

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*    (somebody) to find something.

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*    In an impersonal use, gu means

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*    “to succeed”: ɔgũ ʋ̃ɛ ɽu [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˩ ]

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*    “it helped me to do (it)”: I

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*    succeed in doing (it); idiom.:

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