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    mean “carefully” or even “se-
    cretly” according to the con-
    text; inwin-iɽ̃ã fɛko fo [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ / ˥ ]
    their work is getting slowly
    finished; fɛko [ ˩ \ ] gently!
    (“softly softly”).
    
fɛɽɛfɛɽɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] very sharp; accom-
    panies the verb mu 2 [ ˥ ]; v.
    ʋɛɽɛʋɛɽɛ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].
    
fi [ ˥ ] (1) to throw; combinations
    with verbs: fi [ ˥ ] dɔ̃ [ ˥ ] to miss;
    to mistake; ahoa n-ikɔ̃ɽ̃ɛ̃-nwa,
    ifi‿ɛe dɔ̃ [ ˥ ˩ ˥ / ˩ \ ˩ ˥ / ˦ ] lit. “the
    hawk I just aimed at, I missed
    it”; v. zĩ‿ãɽo [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ]. fi [ ˥ ] fi [ ˥ ] to
    throw something into; ɔfi‿ɛe fi
    oha [ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ˩ ˥ ] he threw it into the
    bush. fi [ ˥ ] gbe [ ˥ ] to throw
    something at...; ɔfi‿ɛe gbe ʋ̃ɛ
    [ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ˥ ] he threw it at me. fi [ ˥ ]
    gb-ua [ ˥ ] (gbe [ ˥ ] ɽua [ ˥ ]) to shoot
    dead. fi [ ˥ ] kui [ / ] to throw
    ɛbo [ ˩ \ ] at a man. fi [ ˥ ] xɛ [ / ]
    to throw ɛbo [ ˩ \ ] on the road
    (same as gbe [ / ] xɛ [ / ]). Com-
    binations with nouns: fi‿agba
    [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] to summon a meeting; in
    a saying which occurs in a
    story; but v. also tie [ / ], t-iko
    [ ˩ ˥ ]. fi‿axwɛe [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] to play
    marbles. fi egbe del-egbe [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ]
    to transform oneself, e.g. into
    an animal; v. xiã [ / ]. fi‿ema
    [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] to dig the big yam-poles
    (ikpɛsi [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]) into the ground;
    for the ɛɣɛ [ ˩ ˥ ]-poles it is
    ba‿ema [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ], v. ba 2 [ / ]; fi [ ˥ ]
    “to throw” expresses a more
    forcible action than ba [ / ] “to
    pierce”. fi‿eso [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] weri-egbe
    [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] “to turn some things
    round”: to revise (Egh. Hist.).
    fi‿exwae [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] yɔ [ \ ] to wish
    something bad to a man, holding
    an exwae [ ˥ ˩ ] in front of the
    mouth and spitting after the