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gɔ̃gɔɔ̃gɔ̃ [ ˦ ˦ ˦ ] upright; uɽu ihue
    gɔ̃gɔɔ̃gɔ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˦ ˦ ] your nose
    stands upright (special charac-
    teristic of the European, hence
    the above sentence may be
    closed with: ʋ-ihu-ebo [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ]
    “like the nose of a white man”.
    This feature is considered as
    funny. On the other hand, an
    ibue pɛrhɛ [ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] “flat nose”, said
    to be: ʋ-ihu-egwi [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] “like
    the nose of a tortoise”, is not
    thought to be beautiful, either).
    
gɔlɔgɔlɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] describes the walk
    of a very tall man with the
    upper part of his body swaying;
    used with the verb xiã [ ˥ ]; cf.
    ogɔlɔ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]; v. lɔgiɔlɔgio [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ].
    
gu 1 [ ˥ ] a verb indicating (1) that
    another action is performed by
    the subject with the help of
    somebody else, or (2) that the
    action is reciprocal, e.g. gu [ ˥ ]
    b-owa [ ˩ ˥ ] to help (somebody)
    in building a house; gu [ ˥ ]
    dɛ [ ˥ ] to buy something from
    somebody; wɛ‿igu dɛ [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˦ ] I
    bought it from you. gu [ ˥ ]
    dia [ / ] to stay with somebody
    or something, esp. in order to
    guard it, e.g. of a hunter’s boy
    who watches the kill while his
    master is in the bush. gu [ ˥ ]
    dido [ ˩ ˥ ], gu [ ˥ ] fi [ ˥ ] dɔ̃ [ ˥ ] to
    lead astray by giving false in-
    formation; v. gie 1 [ / ], ya 1 [ ˥ ].
    gu [ ˥ ] guã [ / ] to talk with
    somebody. gu [ ˥ ] gwi [ ˥ ] to
    quarrel with somebody. gu [ ˥ ]
    gbĩna [ ˩ ˥ ] to fight with some-
    body. gu [ ˥ ] ho [ / ] to help
    (somebody) to find something.
    In an impersonal use, gu means
    “to succeed”: ɔgũ ʋ̃ɛ ɽu [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˩ ]
    “it helped me to do (it)”: I
    succeed in doing (it); idiom.: