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*    knees) for the sake of a palaver.

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*    At last, the process is applied

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*    to the toes, with the words

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*    uɣuxiã rhi-ɛʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] “may you

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*    not go and take palaver”: may

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*    you not have trouble through

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*    going on a journey (?). ra is also

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*    used of rubbing oneself with a

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*    powdered medicine (ɛbo [ ˩ \ ]) as

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*    a remedy against bad spirits, or

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*    as a love medicine.

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*ra 1 [ / ] (1) to catch (from the

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*    air); ɔra‿ugbe n-ifi gi‿ɛe

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*    [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ (4-1) ] he caught the stone

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*    which I threw at him. (2) to

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*    join, in a song; cf. uraʋ̃-ĩhuã

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˧ ].

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*ra 2 [ / ] to prepare a cooked

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*    coco-yam for palm-oil chop.

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*ra 3 [ / ] to cross; ɔra‿ɛzɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ]

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*    he is crossing a river; v. gbe

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*    [ / ], fiã [ ˥ ].

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*rã [ / ] (1) to be warm (of soup,

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*    or the body). (2) to warm up

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*    (a soup); ɔrã‿ũnwɔʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] he

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*    warms up the soup. (3) to be

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*    healthy (with egbe [ ˩ ˥ ] “body”,

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*    v. 1); egbe rã-ɽ̃ɛ̃ [ ˩ ˥ / ˦ ] lit.

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*    “body brightens him”: he is

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*    healthy. (4) to be bright (day,

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*    weather); ɛdɛ n-ɛɽɛ rãɽ̃ɛ̃ [ ˩ ˩ \ ˩ / ˥ ]

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*    “the day of to-day is bright”:

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*    to-day is a fine day.

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*re 1 [ ˥ ] to be in a certain place;

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*    to live at a certain place; ɔr-eʋa

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*    [ ˩ ˥ (4-1) ] he is there; ɔr-ɛdo [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ] he

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*    is (lives) in Benin; ir-agbɛdɛ

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ ] I live at Agbɛdɛ, v. ye [ ˥ ].

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*    r-ɔ [ ˥ ‿ / ] to be in it (at it); also

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*    equivalent to the English “there

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*    is”; iɣami-eka ɽa? ɛ̃, ɔrɔ

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˦ / ˩ ˩ ˧ ˩ ˥ ‿ / ] can I get akara

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*    to buy? Yes, there are (some);

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*    ɔkpɛɽe n-ɔkeɣarɔ [ ˩ / ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˦ ‿ / ] it

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*    is a long time that he has been

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