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*    stand contrite, with downcast

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*    eyes and folded arms, as a

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*    wrongdoer when being blamed

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*    for his offences; cf. ikũ [ ˩ ˩ ],

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*    ikũegbemu [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]; v. ha [ / ] (to

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*    parcel with leaves).

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*kũ 2 [ / ] in kũ [ / ] ɛxũ [ ˩ ˩ ] to

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*    wound; to make infirm; ɔkũ

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*    ʋ̃-ɛ̃xũ [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˩ ] he wounded me

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*    (possibly kũ [ / ]). Idiom: kũ‿

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*    erhã kũ‿iri [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] lit. “hitting

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*    tree hitting creeper”, i.e. meet-

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*    ing obstacles everywhere; used

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*    e.g. of a man who is drunken

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*    and, therefore, hits every ob-

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*    stacle on his way; v. yi [ ˥ ] ama

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*    [ ˥ ˩ ], de [ ˥ ] kũ [ / ].

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*kua [ ˥ ] second part of verbal

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*    combinations implying that the

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*    object (always a mass, such as a

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*    liquid, or grains) is thrown or

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*    poured away; v. fua [ ˥ ], mu [ ˥ ],

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*    hihiɛ [ ˩ ˥ ].

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*kuã [ / ] (1) to bite (of a snake);

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*    cf. ukuãʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ \ ˩ ]. (2) to injure

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*    oneself.

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*kue [ ˥ ] in kue [ ˥ ] y-ɔ [ \ ] to

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*    agree to (it); ikue [ ˩ \ ] I agree;

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*    ɔkue y-ɔʋ̃ɛ-ɽe [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] “he agreed

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*    to me it” (lit. “to my it”?): he

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*    granted it to me.

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*kuɛ̃ [ ˥ ] to trade on credit (used

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*    as second part of verbal com-

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*    binations); ɔxĩ-ɔɛ̃ kuɛ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˧ ] he

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*    sold it on credit; ɔd-ɔe kuɛ̃ [ ˩ (5-4) ˧ ]

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*    he bought it on credit; cf.

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*    ɔdɛkuɛ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ], ɔxiɛ̃kuɛ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ], xiɛ̃

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*    [ ˥ ], [ ˥ ].

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*ku‿ɛtĩ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ]; cf. ko 1 [ / ].

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*k-ugbak-ɛɣɛ [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] at any time;

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*    always; same as ugbugbɛhia

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˧ ]; v. Akugbe; cf. igba [ ˥ ˩ ],

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*    ɛɣɛ [ ˩ ˩ ].

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*kui [ / ] to splash water on some-

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*    thing or somebody; it is also

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*    used as second part of verbal

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