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    Ogbe”: the wall running round
    the Ɛguae [ ˩ ˩ ], esp. the Ɔba’s
    harem. There was once a law
    that anybody who touched this
    wall was to be killed. This,
    however, led to so many false
    denunciations that the Ɔba de-
    creed that the man who de-
    nounced the offender should be
    killed as well. Since then, it is said,
    there has been no further report.
    
ekɛ̃ [ ˩ \ ] egg; ek-ɔ̃xɔxɔ [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˩ ] hen’s
    egg; ekɛ̃-kpɛkpɛyɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˦ ˦ ] duck’s
    egg. Throwing eggs at a man is
    the greatest insult in Benin.
    
eki [ ˥ ˩ ] a pad used when carrying
    loads (cloth, grass, etc.); same
    as ukuoki [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ]; uɣuga rhi-eki
    [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˦ ˩ ] “may you not serve (and)
    take the pad” scil. “as your only
    reward”: may you be rewarded
    for your service (to a servant
    coming from work, as an answer
    to his greeting, by a senior
    man). There is also a curse:
    t-uɽaga rhi-eki [ ˥ ˦ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] may you
    serve and receive a pad (as
    your reward).
    
ekia [ ˥ ˥ ] (1) penis. (2) eki-osisi
    [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] trigger of a gun. (3) eki-
    awa [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] “dog’spenis”: a shrub,
    Erythrina spec. (also Callichilia
    stenosepala); one has a long
    fruit and a dark green stem, the
    other, a short fruit (distribution
    of the Latin names unknown).
    
(e)kigbesiyeha [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˦ ] “missing ten
    in sixty”: fifty.
    
ekita [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] dog; cf. Ibo nkita [ ˥ ˥ ˦ ];
    v. oʋi-akota [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˩ ], awa [ ˩ ˥ ].
    
eko [ ˩ ˥ ] (1) a “camp”, i.e. a tem-
    porary, though possibly long-
    inhabited settlement for pur-
    poses of hunting, farming, and
    formerly war; ek-aɣɛ̃ [ ˩ \ ˩ ] a
    shelter consisting of four poles