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*    you have not agreed, it is your

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*    business (scil. if anything hap-

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*    pens to you), or, it is your

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*    fault, or, let it go however it

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*    will; iɽo dã n-ɔr-uɛ-xɔe ɛma

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*    [ ˩ / ˩ ˩ ˥ ‿ / ˩ / / ‿ ˩ ] the evil thought

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*    that is in your mind (exɔe [ ˥ ˩ ])

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*    is not good. (2) hope; cf. ɽo [ / ].

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*iɽoɣae [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] (sgl. e-) an age-group

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*    (otu [ ˩ ˩ ]) consisting of young

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*    boys and men of the age of

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*    15―30 years; in a small village

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*    the age may be even higher

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*    because the change over from

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*    iɽoɣae to iɣele does not take

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*    place often; their communal

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*    work includes sweeping open

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*    spaces, cleaning grass, carry-

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*    ing mud for the iɣele [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ];

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*    formerly also when a Native

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*    Administration road was built,

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*    treading mud with the iɣele,

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*    helping in house-building, e.g.

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*    by fetching water, and occasion-

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*    ally clearing big plots of farm-

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*    land for the most senior ediɔ̃

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ]; v. otu [ ˩ ˩ ].

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*iɽola [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] track cut through the

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*    bush on which short logs similar

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*    to railway sleepers are laid, used

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*    for hauling logs from the forest

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*    to the next river: “corduroy

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*    track” (a timber expression);

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*    cf. Engl. “roller”.

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*iɽoɽ̃iʋ̃i [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] burial; cf. ɽe [ / ],

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*    oɽ̃iʋ̃i [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ].

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*iɽuekɛ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] collecting mud (in-

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*    cludes mixing mud) for house

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*    building; cf. ɽu [ ˥ ], ekɛ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ].

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*iɽuɛbɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] (1) sacrificing to a juju;

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*    ma mu‿egb-iɽuɛbɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] we are

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*    getting ready to sacrifice to (our)

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*    juju! (used e.g. as an excuse for

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*    failure to attend to a visitor).

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*    (The last syllable, , is usually

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*    lengthened and spoken on a

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