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*    r-odɔ [ ˥ ˩ ˥ (4-1) ] they are there; deɣ-

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*    odɔ hia ma [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˦ / ] is everything

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*    all right there? (lit. “all the

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*    there”).

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*odɔ̃ɣɔ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] (1) froth coming out

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*    of children’s or sick people’s

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*    mouths. (2) caul.

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*odudu [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ] a children’s disease:

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*    spasms; odudu was stated to be

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*    a witches’ name because they

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*    are as merciless as the disease.

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*oduma [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] hyena (probably); not

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*    native to Benin, but occasion-

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*    ally shown round by northern

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*    (Nupe) people. Said to knock a

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*    man down with its fist (!), and

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*    to restore him to life by a

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*    second blow.

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*ofɛ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ] rat; mouse; cf. Yor. ɔfɔ̃

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*    [ ˩ / ].

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*ofi [ ˩ ˥ ] yaws.

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*ofigbɔ̃ [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] palm-oil; ofigbɔ̃-ɽ-ima

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*     [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ ] it is palm-oil we are

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*    buying.

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*ogi- [ ˥ ˩ ] prefix used in the forma-

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*    tion of ordinal numerals, with

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*    the exception of okao [ ˩ ˩ ]

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*    “first”, e.g. ogieva [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] (a)

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*    second; (b) companion; play-

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*    mate; colleague; somebody liv-

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*    ing at the same house (as a term

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*    of address, oko [ ˩ ˥ ] is used);

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*    ogieha [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] third; ogigbe [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ]

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*    tenth, also ukpogieva [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] etc.

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*ogi [ ˩ ˩ ] a creeper, Citrullus vul-

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*    garis; its fruit; it produces seeds

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*    which are used as ingredients of

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*    eʋ-ariɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] “native butter”.

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*Ogiaʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] (1) a chief who pro-

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*    bably is the descendant of a

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*    dynasty ruling in Benin before

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*    the present one. (2) a sib; its

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*    senior is the chief bearing the

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*    same title; its centre is in Benin

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*    City on the left side of Sakpoba

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*    Road; the sib is said to be big

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