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*    voice, it is used with ukpɛ [ ˩ ˥ ]

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*    “beak”); tua-kpɛ [ ˩ ˥ ], e.g. ɔtua

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*    (u)kpɛ rhãrhaãrhã [ ˩ / ˦ ˧ ˧ ˧ ] he

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*    spoke loudly (v. gboɽogboɽo

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*    [ ˦ ˦ ˦ ˦ ]).

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*tua 3 [ / ] to swell (of corpse).

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*tua 4 [ / ] (1) to hasten; to hurry;

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*    ɣɛtua‿inwina na [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ / ˩ ] don’t

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*    hurry this work! (2) to be

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*    hurried (of work, etc.; not “to

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*    be in a hurry”); inwina na tua

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*    gbe [ ˩ ˩ / ˩ / ˦ ] this work is too

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*    much hurried (i.e. and therefore

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*    hard). (3) to be serious. (A.

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*    Biogr.) “To take serious” is ex-

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*    pressed by mu [ ˥ ] gogoogo [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ]

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*    gbe [ ˥ ] “to take too high”.

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*tue 1 [ / ] (1) to ooze out; to

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*    bleed; esagiɛ̃ yetue ʋ-ɛnwɛ na

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*    [ ˩ \ ˩ / ˩ ˩ / ˩ ] the blood is still

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*    oozing out of this wound; esagiɛ̃

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*    tue ʋ-egbe ʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ \ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] I am

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*    bleeding ( “blood is coming out

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*    of my body”). (2) to squeeze

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*    out (viz. the contents of the

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*    bowels of game); tu-ibi-aɽ̃aʋ̃ɛ ni

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*    ɛsɛse [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˩ / ˩ ˩ ˥ ˦ ] squeeze the

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*    bowels of this animal well out!

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*    (3) to pour out (if the liquid is

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*    kept in a vessel with a narrow

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*    mouth, v. rhurhɛ [ ˩ ˥ ]); ɔtu-amɛ

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*    ʋ-uko [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˥ ] he is pouring water

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*    out of a calabash.

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*tue 2 [ / ] to dress one’s hair (of

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*    women); oxuo na ɣatu-eto

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*    [ ˩ / ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] this woman is dressing

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*    (her) hair.

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*tue 3 [ / ] to prepare “medicine”

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*    over a fire, i.e. to “fry” it in a

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*    pan, but without oil or lard;

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*    ɽ̃aʋ̃-uxuʋ̃u [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] is nowadays

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*    used by the young people, but

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*    it is not correct, v. Ɔxwahɛ text;

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*    v. le [ ˥ ], ɽ̃aʋ̃ɛ [ ˩ ˥ ], tɔ̃ 3 [ ˥ ].

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*tuɛ [ ˥ ] (1) to visit (a certain place).

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*    (2) to peet; to salute; koyɔ! ido-

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