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*ixo [ ˩ ˩ ] (1) blood-letting: a piece

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*    of cotton which has been soaked

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*    in oil is lit inside a special kind

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*    of calabash (called uko n-aya

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*    mu‿ĩxo [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] “calabash used

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*    for blood-letting”), and a cut is

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*    made from which the blood is

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*    to be drawn (mainly in the

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*    thigh), the calabash is tightly

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*    pressed on this cut, and when

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*    the light goes out, it sticks to

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*    the spot and draws the blood.

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*    Used as a remedy for reducing

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*    swellings and muscle-pains. (2)

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*    a mark on the forehead that for-

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*    merly was a sign of a free-born

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*    man; also ix-aɽo [ ˥ \ ˩ ] (tone!);

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*    only few people have it now-

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*    adays; it is still a little more

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*    frequent among Binis from

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*    Akure and Ishan people.

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*ixu [ ˩ \ ] (country-made) farmer’s

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*    matchet; billhook; any matchet

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*    may be called ixu when used in

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*    farming.

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*Ixuɛ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ] names of two Bini

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*    villages, seats of Ɔxwahɛ [ ˩ / ˩ ]

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*    shrines; there is Ixuɛ̃ n-iɽo [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˥ ]

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*    and Ixũ-oʋi‿ɔbo [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˦ ˩ ] lit.

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*    “Ixuɛ̃ of the doctor’s child”.

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*ixuiwu [ ˩ \ ˩ ] hatred: ixuiwu bũ-ɛ̃

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*    gbe [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˧ ] “hatred is too much

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*    (with) you”: you are too full of

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*    hatred.

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*iy- [ ˩ ] score; twenty (in connec-

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*    tion with following numerals

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*    only); iy-eva [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ] “two score”:

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*    forty; iy-eha [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ] three score:

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*    sixty; iy-enɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ] four score:

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*    eighty; iy-isɛ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ] five score: a

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*    hundred; iy-iy-eha [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˧ ] “three

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*    score times three score”: 3600

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*    (St Mark 4, 20).

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*iya [ ˥ ˩ ] an exclamation of annoy-

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*    ance used by boys, e.g. when

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*    attacked by a younger brother,

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