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    (i.e. have many children). Only
    after this installation of the
    Ɔɽ̃ɔ̃mila kernels is the teaching
    started which takes more than
    a year, and at the end of which
    the pupil becomes an ɔb-
    ɔɽ̃ɔ̃mila. Some of these doctors
    are farmers, some traders. They
    also concern themselves with
    cures, and they also learn about
    medicines. The oracle plays a
    part in their cures by naming
    the leaves to be used in special
    cases (by quoting previous in-
    stances). The money given to
    the ɔb-ɔɽ̃ɔ̃mila does not enable
    him to live on his practice as is
    the case with ɔb-ewawa. Ordeal
    doctors are not priests.
    
Ɔbo 2 [ ˩ ˥ ] name of a sib; their
    headman is the ogi-ugo [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˩ ],
    and their greeting la‿ɔbo [ ˥ ˥ ˦ ].
    They are said to he the best
    doctors among the Binis; their
    centre is Ugo N-iyek-orhiɔʋ̃ɔ
    [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˦ ˩ ˩ ] which is one of the
    centres of the Osũ [ ˩ ˥ ] cult as
    well. Not every “doctor” be-
    longs to this sib; v. ɛgbɛe [ ˩ \ ].
    
ɔbowa [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] house-builder; cf.
    bɔ [ ˥ ], owa [ ˩ ˥ ].
    
ɔbɔdidi [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˥ ] (also ɔbɔtidi) bad luck;
    the term involves the idea that
    some “palaver” is the result of
    the bad luck or accident; idiom.:
    ɔgb-obɔ y-ɔbɔdidi [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˥ ] “he
    knocked his hand into bad
    luck”: he had an unlucky hand
    (said e.g. when something has
    slipped out of somebody’s hand
    and broken); v. ɔkpɛtu [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ].
    
ɔbuohiɛ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ] (no pl.) “decider”:
    judge; cf. bu [ / ], ohiɛ̃ [ ˩ ˥ ]; v.
    bu [ / ].
    
ɔdado [ ˩ ˩ ˥ ] (a rather idiomatic
    word): a trader who trades on