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*ideʋ̃i [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] “buyers of things”: a
* gang of the Ɔba’s belonging to
* the Ibiwe [ ˩ \ ˩ ] society. They
* go about the country requisition-
* ing food for the Ɛguae [ ˩ ˩ ]
* against payment. Formerly this
* payment is said to have been
* very small; cf. dɛ [ ˥ ], eʋ̃i [ ˩ \ ].
*idɛ̃ɣɛ̃ [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] a knife used in the
* kitchen and in other house-work;
* same as eɽɔ [ ˩ ˩ ]; L.R. fig. 141.
*idĩ [ ˩ ˩ ] grave; cf. f-ĩdĩ [ ˥ ˩ ].
*Idibo [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] name of a Bini village,
* seat of an Ɔxwahɛ [ ˩ / ˩ ] shrine.
*ido [ ˩ ˥ ] (1) loom; v. abɔkpɔ 1 [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ].
* ihue [ ˩ ˥ ], erhã [ ˩ ˥ ]. (2) cobweb:
* akpakpa du‿ido [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˧ ˧ ˨ ] (do [ ˥ ])
* the spider has woven a cobweb.
*idobo [ ˩ ˩ / ] (1) hindrance; ob-
* stacle. (2) disturbance; ɣɛmu‿
* idobo gũ ʋ̃ɛ ʋ-ehe n-iye
* [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ / ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ \ ] “do not put ob-
* stacles to (in front of) me at the
* place where I am”: do not
* disturb me at my house.
*idodia [ ˩ ˥ / ] (or [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] ?) “I stand
* secretly”: a very small snake,
* blue-black, with a white spot at
* each side of the head; it lies
* coiled up and does not move
* much, and runs away when
* touched, bites when trodden
* upon; very poisonous; cf. do 2
* [ / ], dia 1 [ ˥ ], v. ɛnyɛ [ ˩ ˥ ].
*idɔla [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] florin; cf. English
* “dollar”.
*idu [ ˥ ˩ ] wild dove; it has a brown
* back and shining wing-feathers;
* it is believed to use these
* feathers as a mirror in order to
* see whether anybody is fol-
* lowing it (probably because it
* pushes its head forward at every
* step, looking sideways); a dif-
* ferent kind is: idu‿ɛgbo [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˥ ]
* “dove of the forest”; it is bigger