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*    him”: he put poison in his

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*    path; v. fi [ ˥ ] [ / ].

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*gbɛ̃ [ ˥ ] (1) to cut oil; ɔgb-ĩɽ̃uʋ̃u [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ]

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*    he is cutting grass; igb-ɔɛ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ‿ / ]

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*    I cleaned it (e.g. a coconut

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*    from the surrounding fibres).

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*    (2) to carve (with an agbɛ̃ [ ˥ ˥ ]);

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*    ɔgb-ĩvĩ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] he is carving a coco-

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*    nut. (3) to write; in gb-ẽbe [ ˩ ˥ ]

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*    lit. “to write leaf”: to write a

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*    book, letter, etc.; ɔgb-ẽbe gũ ʋ̃ɛ

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˩ ˥ ] he wrote to me; cf.

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*    ɔgbẽbe [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]. (4) to make a

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*    mark; in gbɛ̃ [ ˥ ] orhue [ ˩ ˩ ] to

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*    mark with chalk; infants are

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*    marked with chalk from a few

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*    days after their birth up to the

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*    age of about seven months.

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*    Iterat. gbɛ̃nɛ [ ˩ ˥ ] to mark the

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*    face with tattooings.

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*gbĩ [ ˥ ] to be blunt (of a knife); eɽɔ

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*    na gbĩ, n-uyalɔ‿e re [ ˩ / ˩ \ ˥ / ˥ ˩ ˥ ]

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*    this knife is blunt, (so that) you

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*    should go (and) sharpen it (and)

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*    come! abɛ na fɛko gbĩ, kwelɔ‿

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*    e yi [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ / ˥ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˥ ] this knife is

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*    getting blunt, have you really

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*    sharpened it?

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*gbidii [ ˩ ˩ ] describes the sound of

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*    something heavy falling into

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*    water, also that of a bather

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*    jumping flat into water; v.

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*    gbiɣidi [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ], suɛ̃ỹ [ ˥ ].

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*gbigbi [ ˩ ˥ ] to spread a rumour;

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*    iɽ̃ã gbigbi ɔta ni xiã [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ / ˥ ]

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*    lit. “they are spreading that

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*    story along”; cf. ogbigbi [ ˩ / ˩ ].

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*gbigbigbi [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] describes a strong

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*    wind or a tornado, the rushing

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*    of a river, and knocking at the

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*    door; ɔhoho gbigbigbi [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]

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*    there is a strong wind blowing.

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*gbiɣidi [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] describes the sound

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*    of long, but not heavy objects,

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*    e.g. firewood, falling to the

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*    ground, also that of a wrestler

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