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*  erhã [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] “wood-worm”: lar-
* vae of wood-beetles (?); ɔxɔ-ehe
* [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˥ ] “menstruation worm”:
* pains before menstruation.
*ɔxɔʋ̃ɔ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] a sick person; cf.
* xuɔʋ̃i [ ˩ ˥ ].
*ɔxɔxɔ [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] fowl; hen; ɔxɔxɔ ʋ-ibiɛ
* [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˦ ] “hen and chicken”: the
* Pleiades (N.W.Th.).
*ɔxuɛ̃ [ ˥ ˥ ] a tree, Brachystegia
* eurycoma (? F.D. list has ok-
* wen); very hardy, like oxixã [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ].
*ɔxuɛ [ ˩ ˥ ] expensive food; “dandy-
* chop”; uri‿ɔxuɛ gbe [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˧ ] you
* eat too much costly food!
*ɔxuɛ̃niɛzɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] “law-suit-answer-
* er”: defendant; cf. xuɛ̃niɛ [ ˩ ˥ ],
* ɛzɔ [ ˥ ˥ ]; v. tie [ / ].
*Ɔxwahɛ [ ˩ / ˩ ] (1) a river. (2) an
* ihɛ̃ said to have been a great
* hero and magician during the
* reign of the Ɔba Ɛwuaɽe [ ˥ ˦ ˩ ].
* He then transformed himself
* into the river bearing the same
* name. His cult is one of the
* most important cults in Benin;
* v. ahĩaʋ̃ɛ [ ˥ (4-1) ˩ ].
*ɔxwɛ [ ˩ ˩ ] parrot; among parrots
* there are believed to be some
* that report anything they may
* see in a house to witches; v.
* eba [ ˩ ˥ ].
*ɔxwɛ̃xwɛ̃ [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] a thorny creeper.
*ɔyara [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] a man who is careless
* in behaviour or untidy, e.g. with
* remains of spilt food on his
* garments. The reproach of being
* an ɔyara is mostly made towards
* poor people; ɔyara‿uxĩ, ɣe ʋ-uy-
* unwɔʋ̃ɛ fũ-egbe hia [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˦ ]
* “you are an untidy man, look
* how you have taken (ya [ ˥ ])
* soup smeared (fuɛ̃ [ ˥ ]) all (over)
* the body!”: look how you have
* smeared yourself all over with
* soup!