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Date:

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2015

Revision number: 23 Version: Draft 25 Status: Editing

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1

1 Introduction

(/nsibiri/) is an ideographic writing system with roots in the Cross River region

of south eastern Nigeria neighbouring Cameroon. The oldest evidence of

were

discovered on pottery found in the Calabar region, dated back to the 4th century.1

is used primarily by the various leopard societies of the Cross River region. Before the creation of these societies,

schools to children.

was used by the public and was taught in pre-European

has since declined following the introduction of the Latin script

and Western education in the 19th and 20th centuries. The neo-

project

symbols from the

(/nsibiri ọ́ḥụ̄́/) was started in 2010 in order to convert

(/ńsíbírí/) ideographic script from into morphographic characters

which could be used for a number of languages in the region of its origin.

is and was

a means of communication through drawn ideographs and gestures of the limbs which has been estimated to have existed in the Cross River region of south eastern Nigeria and south western Cameroon since the 4th century

NEW.2

A significant amount of

symbols could be described as morphographic (often referred to as logographic), but extensive use of

evident. The

as a morphographic or moraic script before European contact is not

project is for the most part based on a number of journals published in

the early 20th century by European missionaries; these journals contain hundreds of recorded

ideograms. Other sources for the

come from first hand witnessing of

motifs, such as on clothing (like okara), and other art forms. The

project was first made public on blogger.com in hopes of a wider

community contributing to the development of a moraic that a mora system should follow

derived script. It was decided

characters for easier learning, and for foreign

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Figure 1.1. Radicals (n:

)

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words to be appropriately transliterated. The moraic system was developed from the current

(/ásụ̀sụ̀ ị̀gbò/, Igbo language)

(/ọ́nwụ́/) Latin alphabet, created in the

1950s by the SPILC, an Igbo language regulatory board, as the standard orthography for writing Igbo. The original

hand in

derived mora which was named

(/áká ágụ́/), (meaning leopard

, a nod to the leopard societies) underwent many changes.

been simplified into an alphabet with ‘diphthongs’ acting as one letter. The first language that will use

and

is

has since

of which all characters will be

given readings from here and of which compound phonetic-semantic characters will be based on. The project aims to increase literature in

the language easier to differentiate. For example, an

by making the homophones in

speaker may be able to tell

the difference between egg, a cloth or crying (which are popular homophones in by just looking at the shape of the characters that were used.

)

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2

2 Methodology

2.1 Introduction The neo-

(

) project is based on the modification of original

in order to create fully morphographic characters. Most of these

characters

are from early 20th

century sources in the journals of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Being that most of these

were wholly ideographic, it was necessary to

simplify many of the characters into morphographic forms to be able to record in true writing. There are four types of

incorporated into the project which includes new

characters, compounds, simplifications, and fully original

. At the core of these four

types of characters are the radicals which are the basic shapes that all

characters

are composed of or are the most used characters used to give compounds a semantic context.

is written from left to right. Each character is shaped as if it is in an invisible square.

Most

characters are monosyllabic since this is how most Igbo morphemes are,

although some

are exceptions and may be polysyllabic (usually compound words)

for easy reading. Some of the

characters aid in semantic extensions meaning that

one word can indicate two related concepts through differentiating the

characters.

For example a word for ‘tree trunk’ which was expanded to bridge because of the historical use of tree trunks as bridges is given two characters; one for ‘bridge’ and another for ‘tree trunk’.

One of the main aims of the project was to preserve as many original

characters

and meanings into the new writing system. The key method in implementing was the

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creation of compound characters which required the decipherment of the

compound characters are rough compositions of original

radicals. The

that are brought together

to signify a new meaning, to be specific, a morpheme (word). An example of this is the compound for the morpheme
(/áhịá/, market) which is composed of the original

symbols for ‘people/object’ and ‘trade’ which implies trade area, building or crowd, and

to specifically serve the reading for ‘market’. Most of the characters in this project are made like this. While forging the characters we use phonetic-semantic reasoning to

make characters easier to learn, for example some of the semantic markers include the ‘walled’ character, and characters for ‘rod’, and ‘long’.

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2.2 Nsibiri 2.2.1 Background and history The

symbols that existed before this project do not appear to constitute true writing

which is defined as symbols that represent specific utterances or a specific string of meaning. Most

symbols were apparently ideographic meaning that they represented

something in a semantic field, but not necessarily specific phonemes (sounds). However symbols seem to have a consistent aesthetic and a few

symbols seem to show

evidence of having a morphographic value which were used on their own to represent a specific utterance. One example is the

for ‘bunch of plantains’ which Elphinstone

Dayrell claimed to have been written as “Etak Ntaña Nsibidi” and sent to someone on

a farm for an order of plantains.3 There were also examples of proper names of people written in

.

apparently derived from the ‘action-writing’ of the

society (or an establishment

that preceded it) which involved a sort of symbolic mime-dance that was acted out by male secret society members.

is subsequently said to have come from Cross River

language terms for turning or twisting which derived from the esoteric movements of the

mime dancers. These same performances of turning and making strange movements

can still be seen in leopard-society dances like that of Ẹ̀kpẹ̣̀. From these movements the societies started to draw signs on the ground that related to the movements as ideographic signs that delved much into the judicial aspect of these societies. In time

graphemes came to depict many aspects of life, most notably they came to be heavily associated with love, courting, and married life.4

There are no clear examples that show that

symbols were ever used in succession

in a grammatical structure resembling true writing. Although this conclusion has been made, it is to be noted that apparently

’s history is still being uncovered as evident by the

-like motifs found on pottery in several archaeological sites near Calabar.

2.2.2 Grapheme shape and inventory It is unclear just how many

symbols exist or existed and their specific origin remains

unclear. There are local legends from Cross River communities which suggest mythical

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origins like the claims that

was taught to certain ancestors by baboons. The

symbols for the most part appear to have a consistent shape and aesthetic pattern.

symbols were drawn with a stylus for the symbols composed of strokes. The strokes

are often ended with another stroke in the opposite orientation, reminiscent of serifs found in the Latin alphabet. Many

symbols, unlike in this revision which places each

grapheme in an equal square, were drawn in different sizes and orientations. Most of the symbols are abstract. but

in this glossary uses Hindu numerals for the most part,

numerals in the glossary come from the ‘counting of rods’ in traditional

-writing

societies, rods are an archaic form of currency of especially bronze and copper make.

2.2.3 Composition of

characters

2.2.3.1. Compounds The new

characters were composed in different ways, the first step of creation was

incorporating original

to more pictographic

symbols which represented a specific meaning as opposed

symbols, this was in effort to preserve as many original

graphic shapes as possible by applying the symbols to morphemes that were of a similar meaning. Many symbols were also simplified. For the second step many of

the characters were joined together as a compound to represent a new morpheme; there were two methods of making compounds which feature semantic and phonetic

extension, meaning that characters with a separate meaning can be joined together to

form a new meaning depending on what the characters represent in a pictographic and phonetic sense.

The semantic compound joins characters with a certain shape together to form a new meaning from their pictograph quality. One such compound character is
/ụ́gwụ́/, to represent a valley, this compound is therefore

a semantic one. All characters are generally made to fit in an invisible square so there is

no confusing or muddling up of a compound character and repeated characters of the same shape. The second type of compounds are the phonetic-semantic compounds which takes a character with a similar meaning to the new term and uses it for a new

meaning while combining it with a character with a similar sound to the new term being represented. An example is
/zú/ ‘steal’, which is formed with the character for

a human (laying horizontally) and the character for ‘buy’
which is read as /zụ́/,

the character for steal has appropriated the phonetic value for the character for ‘buy’

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|

Plate 1 Origin of

|

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Figure 2.1. Pictographic origin of the

nasal diacritic with loose relation to the shape

of the mouth when pronouncing nasalised words.

while using the semantic value of the person laying on their side to depict cunningness

or punishment in relation to theft. Other examples are found in the characters for /nà/ which is a homophone for ‘and’ and ‘in’ .

There are also characters noted that come from uli designs of the Igbo mainland which

were used as more decorative motifs.

2.2.3.2. Semantic combination and

affixes

For certain morphemes the phonemes of the character is based on the

affix which

corresponds to the beginning of the word. The affixes were used instead of creating new characters so that the number of characters needed to be learned is reduced. The characters without the affixes keep the original reading. The semantic combination also adds two

characters together to form a new word along with the affixes. The

characters here are used ideographically even though they are used in a certain way

for each word. The process of using the characters as ideographs comes from the use of traditional

. The combinations are all in a bid to reduce the number of graphemes

needed to be memorised. An example of such combination is with the word


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/èkpò/ which gives the character
indicates that the sound starts with /è/ to form the word for

‘generation’, /èkpò/. The affixed morphemes are indicated in the character with a colon which indicates the part of the word that is represented by a character and the single phoneme that is represented by an

letter. These characters are still in development

and will require the reader to have some morphological information before hand since

there are specific combinations for each word and phonetic-semantic value for each character.

2.2.3.3. Relationship with Igbo phonology The characters are meant to match with each of the most common and basic Igbo

morphograms and allow for the combination of such characters to form common Igbo words. There are also

characters that represent multiple morphemes usually for

common words like /ugègbè/ meaning ‘glass’ or ‘mirror’ (depending on dialect). It is expected that

will be adapted to the various Igbo dialects by appropriating

the characters to equivalent morphemes of similar meaning in each dialect. It is also encouraged that

characters be used for other Cross River languages.

Figure 2.1. ‘Okereuki’ recorded by Elphinstone Dayrell. The was recorded at an early stage of Igbo orthography using Roman script so we may assume that Okereuki corresponds to the Igbo name ‘Okereke’ which translates as ‘Male born on the éké day’. Éké also corresponds with a cardinal point (east) as do the other three ‘market’ days of the Igbo four day week; the appears to depict four points which could be the four cardinal points and market days, although it’s possible “Okereuki” may not be in reference to a [Igbo] name.

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Figure 2.2. ‘Onuaha’ in nsibiri, an Igbo name, documented by J. K. Macgregor with noted Western influence. — J. K., Macgregor (January — June, 1909). “Some Notes on Nsibiri.”. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) 39: 209–219.

2.2.4 Notes 1. Slogar, Christopher (Spring 2007). “Early ceramics from Calabar, Nigeria: Towards a history of Nsibiri.”. African Arts (University of California) 40 (1): 18–29. 2. Although definitions of writing vary, this definition applies to morphemic uses. 3. < > “Etak Ntaña Nsibiri — Nsibiri’s bunch of plantains. When the head of the house wants plantains he sends this sign to the head boy on the farm.” — Dayrell, Elphinstone (1910). “Some “Nsibiri” Signs”. Man (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) 10: 113–114. 4. Isichei, Elizabeth Allo (1997). A history of African societies to 1870. Cambridge University Press. p. 357.

2.3 2.3.1 Background is a completely new alphabet made from the short-hand of

simplified into letters.

aim of

system to

characters, and

was created through a process similar to acrophony. The

is to make learning the whole system easier and to serve as a better writing than Latin has done.

was also created in order to write words that

has no characters for, mainly sounds, onomatopoeia and foreign words. There are

two types of

writing

which are áká ọ́sọ́ ‘quick hand’

; and then regular

which is the version used for

used for foreign words and onomatopoeia.

would also be key in writing affixes which are attached to the majority of Igbo words.

uses diacritics to indicate tone, the first kind are acute and grave ‘ticks’, on the left

and right side respectively, which correspond to high and low tones. The second set of

diacritics are acute and grave angled shapes which indicate vowel nasality and derive from the shape of the mouth when pronouncing vowels.

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Table 2.1. The full

alphabet

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One of the key changes of

from Latin is the removal of the letter ‘C’ and the

inclusion of new letters for several digraphs (in the Latin sense). The

includes a method to serve vowel assimilation in

which

alphabet also

does by merging the

two words which will assimilate a vowel and shrink the assimilated vowel. This is in a

manner similar to an exponent and is done in order for the two words to be understood but for the assimilated words to be deciphered.

2.3.2 Composition of 2.3.2.1. Diacritics and special characters There are two main types of

diacritics, the first are for the high and low tones and

the others are for nasal tones and the their high and low tones. The low tones are shown with a grave mark on the right such as < a rising mark on the left such as
and the high tones are shown with

>. These marks are meant to be representative

of the tone through the vertical directions and are used on Igbo tonal phonemes. The nasal marks have a high, mid, and low mark, such as
then this

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2.3.2.2. Vowel assimilation uses ligatures and a form of ‘superscript’ to depict vowel assimilation. The ligatures

are used in the same form as in other languages, in

they are written vertically. The

letters form a new sound based on the blending of the letters. In many cases in Igbo the nucleus (ending vowel) of a word is assimilated by the vowel at the beginning of

the next word, with the superscript the nucleus of the first word has a reduced size when reading to indicate the vowel assimilation, but in a way that allows the reader to decipher the word that had been partly assimilated.

2.2.5. Short Example Sentence A short sentence below demonstrates the ‘superscript’ of coded for easy demonstration.

. The letters are colour-

A short ‘man’ is used as a diacritic ( ) in the more formal version of

between sounds

that are usually not sounded in Igbo, for example Igbo has no words which require the sound made when /p/ ( / ) and /r/ (

/ ) are put together, therefore this would spelt ‘

’, the diacritic is also used as a final like in the English word ‘prince’, the ‘ce’ /s/ would

be finalised with the diacritic like

Figure 2.5. All shapes of

For final /n/ the

‘ ‘ is used.

graphemes excluding all possible ligatures

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3

3 The characters

3.1 Classification Below are all the characters that are currently in the system as on release of this

document. The ‘key’ columns letters refer to the origin of the characters which are: ‘O’ for original (pre-1900

) ‘C’ for compounds (specifically semantic-semantic compounds),

‘S’ for simplifications, ‘P’ for phono-semantic compounds, ‘N’ for new characters made

from the radicals, ‘M’ for original symbols that have been modified (‘Mf’ for form and ‘Mm’ for meaning, ‘Mmf’ for all), and ‘I’ from those imported from uli designs. The readings

are from multiple Igbo dialects (a reading should change according to dialect). There are currently 1400 characters in the system.

Note: readings vary depending on dialect, these readings are examples taken from the

most well known form of the particular word. It will be necessary to tweak each reading for every dialect of the languages that will use these characters. Table 3.1 Key

v. — verb adj. — adjective p. n. — pronoun s. — suffix c. — conjunction Bracket [...] — elaboration contr. — contraction

ad. v. — adverb n. — noun pr. n. — proper noun d. — determiner [word] — an elaboration int. — interrogative

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MMF

2 壊子 (më:nwä)

0003



O

2 ò長 [ò:chíè) 3 ó長 (ó:chíé)

3 ‘ancient’; ‘century’

0004



MF

ósísí

‘tree’; ‘wood’; ‘stick’

0005



MM

1 öfïá

0006



C

öjį

‘iroko tree’

0007



MMF

ṃbǫrǫgwų

‘root’; ‘origin, source’

0008



C

ézè

‘king’, ‘leader’, ‘chief’, ‘head’; ‘owner’

0009



C

ögwá

‘hall’, ‘palace’, ‘long room’

0010



MMF

1ákwükwö 2á葉 (á:gïrïgá)



O

1ḿíri 2水琴 (ų:mï)



MF

ágwö

1 ‘chief’ 2 ‘elder’

1 ‘bush, woods,

forest, grove’ 2 ‘forest’

O

ąnyį

‘female’



O

óké

‘male’



C

ònwé

‘self’, ‘own’, ‘personal’



C

ärrü

‘breast; milk’



O

mádų

‘human, person, mankind’



MF

ülǫ

‘house’, ‘home’, ‘homestead’; ‘building’



O

ànö

‘four, 4’



O

sògbú

‘problem, trouble, palaver’; ‘situation, emergency’; ‘annoyance, inconvenience’



O

ǫpįà

‘sword’



C

ṃpǫmà

‘machete, matchet’

1 ‘leaf’; ‘paper, book,

page, leaflet’ 2 ‘thatch’

1 ‘water’, ‘liquid’,

‘watery, runny’

2 ‘cistern, well’

‘snake’, ‘serpent’

0023

1 ì長 (ì:chíè)

1 ‘child’, ‘baby’ 2 ‘childish’





C

öbįà

‘youth’, ‘teen’, ‘adolescent’ ‘youngster’, teenager’

0024

1 nwä

0013

0002



ǹ員階tà

0014

‘leopard’, ‘brave’, ‘bold’

ǫ感

0015

ágụ

ǹ探

0016

O

į柵

0017

0001



#

0018

ǹ員階tà

0019

ǫ感

0020

ǹ探

0021

į柵

0022

#

0011

character list

0012

3.2 The full



O

òkpòrò

‘rod’, ‘spoke’; ‘iron’

O

ágbübá

‘razor, blade, dagger’

0028



N

ébé

‘place’ (n.), ‘location’

0029



MMF

ńzá

‘support’, ‘help, ‘assistance’

0030



O

ótù

‘one’, 1’; ‘single’, ‘same’

0031



O

àbüö

‘two, 2’; ‘twice’

0032



O

àtö

‘three, 3’

0033



N

ǫmü

‘tender palm frond’

0034



O

ǹchè

‘guard’ (n.)

0035



MF

égbè

‘gun’, ‘rifle’

0036



S

änwü

‘sun’, ‘solar’

0037



C

chä

‘shine, radiate, emit’; ‘ray’



C

nwú

‘illuminate, blaze; fashion, trend (v.)’

0039

0027



‘clean (v.)’

0040

‘under, below’; ‘subterranean’

chá



C

ǫchá

‘clean’, ‘pure’

0041

òkpúrù

C



C

ńgǫrï

‘pleasure’, ‘merriment’

0042

C





C



‘search, find’

0043

0026



ǹ員階tà



C



‘show, display’; ‘teach, demonstrate’

0044

‘train’, ‘raise’, ‘tutor’, ‘drill’, ‘educate’, ‘mentor’, ‘discipline’

ǫ感



N



‘impregnate, germinate’

0045



ǹ探



O

ìsé

‘five’, ‘5’

0046

N

į柵



O

ìsìi

‘six’, ‘6’

0047

0025



#



O

àsàa

‘seven, 7 [rods]’

0048

ǹ員階tà



N

élú

‘up’, ‘top’, ‘atop’, ‘superior’, ‘upper’

0049

ǫ感



C

ábáḿ

‘edge’, ‘corner’, ‘roof’

0050

ǹ探



C



‘raise, erect, lift’

0051

į柵



C

òzùzò

‘rain (n.)’

0052

#

0038

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C

übǫchį

‘day’; ‘date, time’

N

ügwü

‘hill’; ‘mound, mountain’

0056



O

àsáatö

‘eight, 8 [rods]’

0057



O

ìtóolú

‘nine’, ‘9’ [rods]’

0058



O

ìrí

‘ten’, ‘10’ [rods]’

0059



O

kpákpáǹdò

‘star, stars, cosmos’; ‘dandy, celebrity’

0060



MF

ábàlį

‘night’

0061



O

úté

‘mat’

0062



O

ághárá

‘riot, disturbance, nuisance’; ‘confusion’; ‘noise, argument’, raucous

0063



MM

àkų

‘wealth, money, capital, ‘riches’, ‘treasure’

0064



N

ükwü

‘leg’, ‘foot’



MMF

1ójíjé 2í宛 (í:jè)

1 ‘walk’, ‘movement’, ‘going’ 2 ’walking’, ‘journey’

0066

0055



ánü

‘animal’

0067

‘sky’; ‘heaven’, ‘pantheon’; ‘space, cosmos’, ‘dome’, ‘convex’

C



C



‘swell’, ‘rise’

0068

ígwé





C



‘him’, ‘her’, ‘it’

0069

0054



C

ǹ員階tà



PC



‘steal’, ‘thieve’

0070

‘thin, slim’

ǫ感



N

ńdï

‘people of’, ‘people’

0071

ákï

ǹ探



C

1ónyé 2ò衣 / 激衣 (ò:nyé)

0072

C

į柵



O

ábá

‘hook’, ‘staple’

0073

0053



#



C

àlà

‘ground’, ‘land’, ‘earth’; ‘planet’; ‘property’, ‘estate’

0074

ǹ員階tà



MM

ńtü

‘vagina, vulva’

0075

ǫ感



MM

1ütü 2á今医 (á:gb:á)

1 ‘penis’ 2 ‘phallus, phallic’

0076

ǹ探



MF

ümų

‘children’, ‘babies’, ‘offspring’, ‘group’, ‘young’, ‘youth’

0077

į柵



MM

ókwú

‘talk (n.), speech, words’

0078

#

0065

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O



‘link’, ‘join’, ‘unify’, ‘unity’ (v.); ‘copulate’

1 ‘person of’,

‘person’

2 ‘who’ (int.)

‘journey’, ‘odyssey’, ‘mission’, ‘struggle’

0082



O

üzǫ

‘road’, ‘path’, ‘portal’, ‘way’, ‘street’, ‘track’, ‘direction’

0083



MMF

1wá 2k胃 (k:à) 3ǫk胃 (ǫ:k:àrà)

0084



O

ímé

‘pregnancy, pregnant, term’; ‘after birth’

0085



O

ózí

‘message’, ‘notification’, ‘news’, ‘letter’, ‘teachings’, ‘sermon’

0086



C

úkwú

‘big, large, great, grand’; ‘plentiful, much, many’

0087



MM

óbì

‘heart’, ‘feelings’, ‘courage’, ‘mind’, ‘soul’, ‘centre’, ‘core’, ‘chest’



änyä

‘eye’, ‘eyes’, ‘opening’, ‘vent’

1hü 2ny見 (ny:ó)

1‘see’, ‘realise’, ‘know’, ‘attentive’, ‘ascertain’, ‘decode’, ‘care’, ‘love’, ‘meet’ 2’inspect’, ‘check’, ‘spy’, investigate’

0090 0091

見 尉 異

MF

C

C

C

ìdè

úfíé

1

‘split’, ‘crack’, ‘expose’ 2 ‘divide’ 3 ‘half’

0092

íjè

0093

O

‘cam wood, reddish orange’



PC

ìgódó

‘key’

0094

0081



úhìè



C

įhnyę

‘light’, ‘glow’

0095

‘stick, sticky, glue, slip, place, staple, rub, post (v.)’

PC



C

įhnyę

‘civilization, intelligence, stateliness, morality’; ‘aura’

0096

nyá





O

ųdüdö

‘spider’

0097

0080



PC

ǹ員階tà



O

óbé

‘ladder’

0098

‘lover’

ǫ感



O

ógwè

‘bridge, overpass’

0099

ökwų

ǹ探



PC

ógwè

‘[tree] trunk’; ‘limb’

0100

C

į柵



MF

önwä

‘moon; ‘month; season’

0101

0079



#



C

1áfǫ 2è遺 (è:kpò)

1 ‘year’ 2 ‘generation’

0102

ǹ員階tà



C

ńdözö

‘full moon’

0103

ǫ感



C

ǹdàbà

‘over-clouding’

0104

ǹ探



C

ìbùbè

‘halo’

0105

į柵

0089

#

0088

垣 葉 19



O

ḿbę

‘tortoise’

‘post, pillar, column, stake’

‘width’

C

ńgígá

‘cage, cell, room’

0109



O

ïhünányá

‘love, affection, admiration’; ‘flirt, flirting’

0110



C

óké

‘plenty’, ‘too much’, ‘super’

0111



S

önü

‘mouth; opening’

0112



C

1íhnyú 2á印遺 (á:z:į)

1 ‘front’, ‘in front, ‘forward’ 2 ‘future generation’

0113



C



‘fall’, ‘collapse’, ‘fail’

0114



C

ǫhà

‘public, state; people, population’

0115



M

àfǫ

‘market day; north’

0116



M

ǹkwö

‘market day; south’

0117



M

èké

‘market day; east’

0118



M

órìè

‘market day; west’



C

1bí 2b韻 (b:è)

1 ‘cut’, ‘slice’,

‘divide’

2 ‘end, ending’

0120

0108



‘begin, start, commence’

0121

‘iron bar’; ‘prison’; ‘imprison’





C

bìá

‘come, arrive’

0122

ǹgà

C



C

ńádí

‘relation, relative’

0123

O





O

óhù

‘slave’

0124

0107



ǹ員階tà



C



‘and’ (c.)

0125

‘nsibiri’ [cf. Ekoi ‘nsibidi’]

ǫ感



C



‘or’ (c.)

0126

ńsíbírí

ǹ探



C

ìgbò

‘Igbo language, Igbo people’ (n.)

0127

O

į柵



C



‘but, however, if not’ (c.)

0128

0106



#



C

nwó

‘so’ (c.)

0129

ǹ員階tà



C

màkà

‘because (c.)’

0130

ǫ感



C



‘yet (c.)’

0131

ǹ探



C



‘although (c.)’

0132

į柵



C

ëmëmkàtá

‘after, following (c.)’

0133

#

0119

垣 葉 20



PC



‘in’, ‘at’, ‘inside’, ‘middle’, ‘centre’

S

kwú

‘talk, say, speak (v.)’

0137



PC

kwú

‘embrace’, ‘move to’, ‘hug’

0138



C

égwú

‘rhythm’, ‘music’

0139



C

gbà

‘join’, ‘add’, ‘pair’, ‘come together (v.)’

0140



I

öjï

‘kola nut’

0141



C

kèlé

‘greet’, ‘welcome’

0142



C



‘follow, escort, accompany’

0143



C

ńzü

‘chalk’

0144



C

ójí

‘black’

0145



C



‘scratch’, ‘erase’, ‘engrave’, ‘scribe’

0146



C



‘husband, dedicated to, professional’



C

nwínyè

‘wife, partner’

0148

0136



‘present in’, ‘on’, ‘in’, ‘inside’, ‘is’, ‘be’

0149

‘talkative’



沿

O

ílómá

‘anchor’

0150

ìchóokù

C



O

òkpòghò

‘currency’

0151

S





N

òròghòrò

‘zero’

0152

0135



ǹ員階tà



MF

író

‘public’, ‘square’, ‘street’, ‘public way’

0153

‘country, state’

ǫ感



C

ḿkpà

‘important’, ‘relevant’, ‘significant’, ‘necessary’

0154

òbòdò

ǹ探



C

1áñųrí 2ò媛 (ò:ghù) 2r媛 (r:ö)

0155

C

į柵



C

ághá

‘war’, ‘riot’, ‘upheaval’

0156

0134



#



N

ókútá

‘stone’, ‘pebble’, ‘boulder’

0157

ǹ員階tà



C



‘beauty’, ‘goodness’

0158

ǫ感



C

ńí

‘food’

0159

ǹ探



O

ökü

‘fire’, ‘heat’

0160

į柵



C

chí

‘soul’, ‘essence; ‘universe’

0161

#

0147

垣 葉 21



O

1ǹö 2ǹ鉛 (ǹ:öo)

1,2‘welcome’, ‘hello’

1 ‘happiness, joy,

celebration’ 2 ‘play’ 2 ‘play’, ‘celebrate’

C

ìkùkù

‘breeze, gale, wind’

0165



C

ńdų

‘life’, ‘live’, ‘alive’, ‘living’; ‘strength’; ‘green’

0166



O



‘defile’

0167



C



‘buy, purchase’

0168



MF

úgbènè

‘feather’

0169



C

öbübá

‘entrance’

0170



C

òmënàlà

‘culture’

0171



MF

ègèdè

‘plantain’

0172



O

1ḿgbó 2ḿ旺憬 (ḿ:pì:ò)

0173



C

díiké

‘warrior’, ‘soldier’, ‘strong man’

0174



MM

èsè

‘question’



C

ḿbà

‘nation’, ‘tribe’, ‘ethnicity’

1 ‘door’, ‘gate’ 2 ‘wooden shutter’,

‘window’, ‘portal’

0176

0164



‘no’

0177

‘now; time’

ḿbà



C

rüü

‘work’, ‘build’

0178

ùgbú

C



C



‘strengthen’, ‘stiffen’, ‘harden’

0179

C





O

ïgbà

‘drum’

0180

0163



ǹ員階tà



C

ékwéńsú

‘trickster deity’

0181

‘group’

ǫ感



C



‘cause mischief, be sneaky, trickery’,‘trick’, ‘defraud’

0182

òtù

ǹ探



C

àlülü

‘marriage’

0183

C

į柵



O

àsï

‘lie’, ‘deceit’

0184

0162



#



C

úchè

‘mind’, ‘wisdom’

0185

ǹ員階tà



C



‘tie’, ‘bind’

0186

ǫ感



S

ózú

‘corpse, dead body’

0187

ǹ探



N

ójö

‘fear’

0188

į柵



S

önwü

‘death’

0189

#

0175

垣 葉 22



C

gbú

‘kill’, ‘harm’, ‘slaughter’

C

bíkó

‘please’

0193



MM

ńjö

‘bad, evil’

0194



C



‘go’, ‘sojourn’

0195



I

àlà

‘earth goddess (pr. n.)’

0196



C

ńsö sö

‘sacred, holy, forbidden’

0197



O

ṃgbǫtö

‘courtesan, prostitute, harlot’

0198



C



‘to rain, precipitation, hail from the sky’

0199



C



‘me, myself’

0200



C



‘you’

0201



O



‘argue’, ‘quarrel’, ‘be in disagreement’

0202



C

íké

‘strength’, ‘energy’



C, MMF



‘sweet’, ‘be sweet’, ‘be flavourful’

0204

0192



‘cold, chill, freeze’

0205

‘father, patriarch’

óyí



C

ìdèḿílí

‘regional deity’

0206

ńà

C



C

égó

‘money, currency’

0207

C





C

ösö

‘running, chase, run, quick, fast, race’

0208

0191



ǹ員階tà



C

ánwųrų

‘smoke, fumes, air pollution’

0209

‘mother’

ǫ感



C



‘say, said’

0210

ńë

ǹ探



C

ányï

‘us’, ‘we’

0211

C

į柵



C

ḿánü

‘oil’

0212

0190



#



O

1rìà 2ö渦 (ö:rįà)

0213

ǹ員階tà



O

íyí

‘spring [from rock], stream’

0214

ǫ感



O



‘have sex’

0215

ǹ探



C

àzü

‘back, behind’

0216

į柵



C

wútù

‘descend, come down’

0217

#

0203

垣 葉 23



C

ömų

‘queen’

1 ‘be sick, suffer,

ill; to be troubled, tormented’ 2 ‘sickness’

C

ùsòkwù

‘womans’ abode’

0221



O

áká

‘hand’, ‘arm’

0222



N

ǫkpö

‘fist’, ‘knuckle’, ‘boxing’

0223



C

ńjé

‘wrist’

0224



PC

àkà

‘dwarf’

0225



O

íkwè

‘mortar’

0226



MM

áñü

‘bee, bees’

0227



C

1ḿkpürü 2àkp画 (à:kp:ïrü)

1 ‘particle, fruit’ 2 ‘fruit’

0228



O

èkpèńtá

‘leprosy’

0229



S

éhí

‘cow’



S

önyá

‘wound’, ‘scar’

0231

0220



‘village’

0232

‘come together’, ‘link’

ógó



S

égbé

‘kite (bird)’

0233



C



S

íkòrò

‘slit drum’

0234

C





C

àkwá

‘egg; delicate’

0235

0219



ǹ員階tà



O

ńvö

‘comb’

0236

‘take, snatch’

ǫ感



C

échìchè

‘thought’

0237



ǹ探



C

ïbàį

‘third child’

0238

PC

į柵



C

òkpòró

‘virgin’, ‘girl’

0239

0218



#



C

ögǫ

‘in-law (n.)’

0240

ǹ員階tà



PC

ímé

‘inside, inner, in, interior, enclosure’

0241

ǫ感



S



‘bury (v.)’

0242

ǹ探



C

ékwú

‘kitchen’

0243

į柵



C



‘so that’, ‘lead to’; ‘allow’, ‘let’

0244

#

0230

垣 葉 24



C

ǫmügwǫ

‘birth tradition; postnatal’

S

ájá

‘earth’, ‘dirt’

0248



C



‘leave’, ‘exit’, ‘come out’, ‘escape’, ‘embark’, ‘produce’

0249



PC



‘touch’, ‘feel’, ‘press’, ‘hit’

0250



C

àgà

‘infertile’ (n.)

0251



C

ṃgbè

‘when; time’

0252



C

ógè

‘time’

0253



C



‘do’, ‘act’

0254



C

ńkwà

‘dance’, ‘rhythm’ (n.)

0255



O

ìfúrú

‘flower’ (n.)

0256



C



‘enter’

0257



C

ǹkè

‘of’



C

1 ǹgà

1 ‘place’, ‘location’,

‘site’, ‘position’

0259

0247



‘protect, shield’

0260

‘ask, query’

ché



C

chè

‘think, reflect; remember’

0261



C



C



‘eat’, ‘bite’, ‘chew’

0262

C





C

1ázų 2é街 (é:mìi)

0263

0246



ǹ員階tà



C

ṃfé

‘ease, easy’

0264

‘menstruate’

ǫ感



C



‘teach’, ‘support’

0265

ǫbà

ǹ探



C

kwä

‘cry, sob’

0266

C

į柵



C

rrí

‘eat’, ‘consume’

0267

0245



#



C

ézé

‘tooth’, ‘teeth’

0268

ǹ員階tà



PC

íhnyú

‘face, façade; mask’

0269

ǫ感



C

nyü

‘excrete’

0270

ǹ探



C



‘remove, take’

0271

į柵



S

nyé

‘give’, ‘donate’

0272

#

0258

垣 葉 25



S

ńtùtù

‘hair’

1 ‘fish’ 2 ‘whale’

0276



C

òzè

‘bronze’

0277



C

èdò

‘gold’, ‘yellow’

0278



C

ǫhümá

‘well, correct, proper, right’

0279



C

àbųbǫ

‘vegetable, plant’

0280



C



‘inflict, infect pass on, affect’

0281



O

1ócé 2é閣 (é:kwè)

1 ‘chair, seat’ 2 ‘stool’

0282



S

1áwǫ 2ḿ確 (ḿ:bá:Rá)

1‘toad’ 2’frog’

0283



S

àkpà

‘bag, sack, luggage’

0284



O

òkwùlù

‘womb’

0285



C

vú bú

‘lift, carry’



C



‘precede; first’

‘change’

2 ‘tornado’

0287

PC

1 ‘twist’, ‘turn’,

‘bless’, ‘invoke upon’

0288

0275



1tü 2è核 (è:bì)





C



‘downward’, ‘falling’, ‘descend’, ‘demolish’, ‘reduce’

0289

‘give birth, procreate’

C



C

1ṃbü 2t顎(t:úpù) 3ì顎 (ì:zì)

1 ‘first, precede, start; ancient, past’ 2 ‘before’ 3 ‘first, beginning’

0290







C

àchìchà

‘bread’, ‘plantain flakes’

0291

0274



C

ǹ員階tà



C



‘refuse’, ‘deny’ (v.)

0292

‘beside’, ‘edge’, ‘side’, ‘corner’

ǫ感



C



‘be arrogant’

0293

ákųkų

ǹ探



S

éwú

‘goat’

0294

C

į柵



C

ǹdéewó

‘a greeting; thank you; good bye; I understand’

0295

0273



#



C

ökpárá

‘first son; main man’

0296

ǹ員階tà



C

àdá

‘first daughter; head woman’

0297

ǫ感



C

òbí

‘king [regional]; mayor, governor’

0298

ǹ探



C

gịnị

‘what [interrogative]’

0299

į柵



C

ókpóró

‘street, road, open road, highway; middle of the road’

0300

#

0286

垣 葉 26



C



‘cross’, ‘pass’, ‘speed past’



step, trample, stamp feet

0304



O

rrä

‘sleep’

0305



C

ghǫ

‘mistake, accident’

0306



PC



‘cry’, ‘shout’, ‘bleat’

0307



C

ügwö

‘debt, payment, salary’

0308



C

öbà

‘calabash’

0309



O



‘to pain, be in pain’

0310



C

èdò

‘yellow’; ‘golden’

0311



C



‘marry’

0312



C



‘write’

0313



S

ökpükpü

‘bone’



C

ḧí

‘sleep, be unconscious’ (v.)

0315

C

‘medicine; charm; poison’

0316

0303



ögwų



C

1vú 2àgb看 (àgb:à)

0317

‘cycle’, ‘movement’

S



C

àsįrį

‘gossip, idle talk’

0318

étémété





C

ábü

‘cat’, ‘feline’

0319

0302



C

ǹ員階tà



C

tàa

‘today’

0320

‘climb, crawl up’

ǫ感



C

échí

‘tomorrow’

0321



ǹ探



C

ìbìrì

‘married woman’

0322

C

į柵



C

ámá

‘space’, ‘outdoors’

0323

0301



#



C

1ìbùbè 2ǹ喚 (ǹ:lá)

1 ‘butterfly’ 2 ‘moth’

0324

ǹ員階tà



C



‘fill; full; enough, limit’ (adj.; v.)

0325

ǫ感



C



‘go, embark, walk’ (v.)

0326

ǹ探



PC



‘copy’ (v.)

0327

į柵



C



‘originate’, ‘from’, ‘pass’, ‘divert’, ‘method’, ‘how’, ‘via’

0328

#

0314

垣 葉 27



C



‘be bitter, strong taste, sour’

1 ‘grow big’, ‘grow

fat’

2 ‘fat (n.)’

0332



C

ílú

‘proverb, adage, wisdom, philosophy’

0333



C



‘jump, jump over’

0334



C

ǫbìà

‘visitor, foreigner’

0335



C



‘count, calculate, note; read’

0336



S

1ọlọkọ 2t漢 (t:ümádï) 3è漢今 (è:kì:rì)

0337



PC

ïhnyë

‘thing’, ‘of’, ‘the’

0338



C

ényí

‘elephant’

0339



C

ányįnyà

‘horse’

0340



C

kpö

‘call’ ‘name’, ‘blame’, ‘indict’, ‘insult’

0341



MM

úsòrò

‘order’, ‘line, ‘arrangement’, ‘organisation’, ‘system’



C

1 ógìdì 2á館 (á:jü)

1 ‘shooting star’ 2 ‘suddenly’,

‘immediately’ 3 ‘meteor, asteroid’

1

2 ‘pillar’, ‘column’

0343

‘new, like new; reborn; clean’

‘greater than; supersede, dominate, be bigger’

0344

öḣürü





C

ísí

‘head, leader, first, beginning’

0345

C

C



C

gbásá

‘concerning’, ‘concerns’, ‘care’

0346

0331







PC



‘like’, ‘resemble’, ‘copy’

0347

‘lay down’, ‘horizontal’ ‘be intimate’, ‘friendly relations’, ‘have sex’

ǹ員階tà



PC



‘still, continue’

0348

dínà

ǫ感



C



‘know, learn’

0349

0330



C

1 ‘commit, wedding’ 2 ‘betroth’

ǹ探



O

ìnyì

‘elephantiasis’

0350

1 ákwükwö 2k間 (k:è)

į柵



S

1ákwà 2á布 (á:gbö)

0351

C

#



C

kpá

‘weave’, ‘plait’

0352

0329



ǹ員階tà



C

éfé ùwé

‘clothing, clothes’

0353

ǫ感



C

ökölötö

‘flag, banner’

0354

ǹ探



C

chö

‘search’, ‘want’, ‘long’, ‘desperate for’, ‘require’, ‘desire’, ‘seek’

0355

į柵



C

ìtè

‘pot’

0356

#

0342

垣 葉 28



C

àhü

‘body’, ‘torso’

1 ‘cloth, fabric,

textile’

2 ‘table cloth’

0360



C

máazï

‘mister, sir’

0361



C

ànyàsì

‘evening’, ‘dusk’

0362



C

nwü

‘die’, ‘decease’, ‘end’

0363



C

1gwù 2égwù

1,2‘fear’ ‘danger’ ‘hazard’, ‘terrible’

0364



C

ébézí

‘ocean’

0365



C

ètítì

‘middle’, ‘centre’

0366



C

1bä 2sh和 (sh:í)

1 ‘protest’, ‘shout’, ‘be annoyed’, ‘attack’ 2 ‘protest’

0367



C

íwé

‘anger’

0368



C

ï

‘you’

0369



C

äḥą

‘name’ (n.); ‘reputation’



C

ányàrà

‘albino’

1 ‘what’ 2 ‘how much, which

one’



MMF

1 ké? 2ò廊 (ò:lé)

0371

PC

‘left (n.), common hand’

0372

0359



ękpę

òké

‘rat’

0373

‘look’, ‘watch’, ‘stare’, ‘seek’, ‘observe’, ‘monitor’, ‘govern’, ‘manage’

C



PC



‘live’, ‘exist’, ‘inhabit’, ‘dwell’

0374







S

ńsí

‘poison’

0375

0358



C

ǹ員階tà



C



‘leave, escape’

0376

‘blood; red, reddish’

ǫ感



C

ḿkpú

‘shout, volume, loud, noise’

0377

ǫbàrà

ǹ探



C



‘stuff’, ‘join’, ‘wedge’

0378

C

į柵



C



‘enter something into’, ‘put’, ‘place’, ‘enter’

0379

0357



#



O

1 dí 2épùṃ

1 ‘free born’ 2 ‘citizen’

0380

ǹ員階tà



C

wùzó

‘stand’, ‘rise’, ‘arise’, ‘stand up’

0381

ǫ感



S

1ńkwü 2ú奇 (ú:bìrì)

1‘fire wood’, ‘stick’, ‘wood’ 2’plank’, ‘board’, ‘slats’

0382

ǹ探



C

éwí

‘bush rat’

0383

į柵



C

ötá

‘shield (n.)’

0384

#

0370

垣 葉 29



C



‘shout, cry out’

‘a deity’ (pr. n.)

0388



C



‘borrow’

0389



O

ńchà

‘soap’

0390



C

ábájí

‘sea’

0391



C



‘stay’, ‘remain’, ‘present in’, ‘in’, ‘on’, ‘sit down’

0392



C



‘sweep, clear, rake’

0393



C



‘to fight, struggle’

0394



C

ńtį

‘ear’

0395



C



‘resemble’, ‘look like’

0396



C

kïtïkpá

‘small pox’

0397



C

ìzù

‘meeting, conference, summit’



C



‘tell account’, ‘say’, ‘discuss’, ‘describe’



C

ńkwü

‘palm’, ‘palm wine’



C

ẹe

‘yes’



C

ǫbürų

‘brain’



S



‘yam’



C

ųzų

‘noise, disturbance’



C



‘describe’, ‘discuss’, ‘tell’, ‘say’



C

kámáalü

‘a deity (pr. n.)’



C

àmųmà

‘lightening’



S

ǹshïkǫ

‘crab’



O

ṃgbèrè

‘trade’ (n.); ‘industry, market’



MMF

íkéǹgà

0399

C

‘horns’

0400

0387



ṃpí

0401

1‘wear’, ‘dress in’, ‘clothe’ 2‘wear’, ‘hang’

C

0402

1yí 2ny既 (ny:á)



0403

0386



C

ǹ員階tà

0404

‘hunting’

ǫ感

0405

ǹtá

ǹ探

0406

C

į柵

0407

0385



#

0408

ǹ員階tà

0409

ǫ感

0410

ǹ探

áhíá

‘market, industry, business’; ‘goods’

0411

į柵



O

ṃgbèrèkè

‘trader, businessman’

0412

#

0398

垣 葉 30



S

ügbö

‘vessel’, ‘boat’, ‘ship’, ‘vehicle’

C

ágü

‘hunger’

0416



C

íré

‘tongue’

0417



C



‘hang’, ‘suspend’

0418



C

ḿkpïsï

‘toe, finger; cylinder’

0419



C



‘hold, use, have’

0420



C

àhų

‘awn (n.), goatee, moustache, beard, fibre’

0421



C

ǹgà

‘pride, arrogance’

0422



C

ásųsų

‘language’, ‘speak’, ‘word’, ‘phrase’

0423



C



‘talk, speak’

0424



C

ásü

‘saliva’, ‘spit’

0425



C

1pá 2kp客 (kp:á)

1,2‘transport’, ‘pass’, ‘carry’



PC

ǹtì

‘cheek (n.)’

0427

0415



‘children’

0428

‘weaving frame, loom’

ümųáká



C

nwátà

‘baby, child’

0429

ùtè

C



C

ükpürü

‘footprint, footsteps’

0430

O





C



‘pull, tug, draw; slimy’

0431

0414



ǹ員階tà



S

éféré

‘plate, dish, crockery’

0432

‘parrot’

ǫ感



C

1ígwę 2í級 (í:gwę)

1 ‘metal, iron’ 2 ‘machine’

0433

ìchèǹkù

ǹ探



O

éké

‘python’

0434

S

į柵



O

ḿkpárá

‘walking stick, staff’

0435

0413



#



C

òkpòǹtù

‘grey’, ‘ash’

0436

ǹ員階tà



C

òtù

‘how, way, method’

0437

ǫ感



C

ųfà

‘good luck’

0438

ǹ探



C

úgbòkò

‘forest’

0439

į柵



C



‘squeeze, squint, cut eye, give the evil eye’

0440

#

0426

垣 葉 31



C

ärü

‘bite, gash’

ṃgbǫ

‘try’, ‘attempt’ (n.); sport, game’

0444



C

1 ökpų 2 é牛 (é:bè)

0445



C

ùdó

‘peace’

0446



C

1ògè 2ò窮 (ògì:gè)

1,2‘garden’, ‘yard’, ‘park’

0447



C

òkè

‘boundary’

0448



C

ìkpèrè

‘border’, ‘edge’, ‘bank’

0449



C

ùkwù

‘bundle’

0450



N

1ógwè 2á拒 (á:bų)

1‘limb’ 2‘armpit’

0451



C

rrá

‘lick, drink, consume’

0452



C

ńtü

‘ash’, ‘powder’

0453



C

öyïi

‘lover’



C

áfö

‘tire’, ‘tube’, ‘pipe’, ‘rubbery enclosure’

1 ‘beginnings, long,

past’

2 ‘endless, eternity,

forever’

0455

PC

‘entice’

0456

0443



ütá



PC



‘are, that, is (aux. v.)’

0457

1 ‘endure, endurance’ 2 ‘try hard, best’

C



PC

náa

‘negative of are, is (aux. v.)’

0458

1 dì 2gb脚 (gb:álì)





C



‘are’, ‘that’, ‘is’ (aux. v.)’

0459

0442



C

ǹ員階tà



C

ųtá

‘archery, arrow’

0460

‘escort, lead, guide, accompany, follow, safeguard’

ǫ感



C

1hä 2凶ée (h:ée)

2 ‘them’ [past tense]

0461



ǹ探



C

ìwú

‘law’, ‘act’

0462

O

į柵



C



‘clear by cutting, weed (v.)’

0463

0441



#



C

ólú

‘voice; dialect, language, singing voice’

0464

ǹ員階tà



C

íchè

‘different, individual, unique, independent’

0465

ǫ感



C



‘grow’, ‘be tall’

0466

ǹ探



C

náanïi

‘only, solitary (ad. v.)’, ‘just’

0467

į柵



C

1ölà 2ǹj協 (ǹj:à)

1‘brass’ 2’brass anklet’

0468

#

0454

垣 葉 32



C

ölàöchá

‘silver’

1 ‘them’

1 ‘beg’, ‘ask’ 2 ‘pray’

0472



C

ófé

‘soup, sauce’

0473



C

kpá

‘move’, ‘cause’

0474



C

ìhùrù

‘charm’

0475



C

1göo 2b呪 (báa)

0476



C

ųwà

‘world, known universe’



C



‘leave’, ‘abandon’, ‘ditch’; ‘quit’; ‘bequeath’

‘curse’, ‘trick’

0478



C



‘fill’, ‘full’, ‘stock’, ‘pack’, ‘crowd’, ‘inundate’

0479



C

chï

‘lead [in politics]; ‘campaign’, ‘govern’, ‘rule’

0480



C

öokà

‘corn’

0481

2 ‘bewitch’



C

éxì

‘pig, pork’

0482

1



C

ódóodó

‘purple’

0483

S

‘maggot’

0484

0471



1rïö 2kp頼 (kp:é)

áhühü



C

àgbà

‘pledge, covenant, testament, appointment, schedule, contract’

0485

‘scratch, itch, erase, tear, engrave’

C



C

òdìbò

‘servant’, ‘henchman’, ‘sidekick’, ‘agent’, ‘follower’, ‘handyman’

0486







C



‘catch hold, snare’

0487

0470



PC

ǹ員階tà



C

óhèrè

‘space, freedom; outskirts’, ‘opportunity’

0488

‘farm’

ǫ感



C

tümà

‘especially’

0489

úgbó

ǹ探



C

ümųńà

‘lineage’, ‘family line’, ‘patrilineage’, paternal line’

0490

C

į柵



C



‘reach’, ‘arrive’, ‘attain’

0491

0469



#



C

àkü

‘arrow’

0492

ǹ員階tà



S

ḿüọo

‘spirits; ghost; ‘extraterrestrial’, ‘supernatural being; ‘toy’

0493

ǫ感



C

èyè

‘history’, ‘genealogy’

0494

ǹ探



C



‘send’

0495

į柵



C

ümë

‘action, method, way; effect’

0496

#

0477

垣 葉 33



C

ókó

‘male, man [prefix]’

C



‘wait, guard’, ‘expect’

0500



C

ǹdàsì

‘glass’

0501



C

1ghé 2gh挟 (gh:ǫ)

1 ‘listen, hear’ 2 ‘understand’

0502



C

kpǫ

‘strike, nail’

0503



C



‘pour’, ‘spill’

0504



C

ódógwú

‘hero, war general’

0505



C



‘since’, ‘for a long time’

0506



C

nyá

‘yesterday’, ‘previously’, ‘past’

0507



C

1gwü 2酸強 (í:sí) 3ö強強 (ö:gwü:gwü)

1 ‘finish, end (v.)’ 2 ‘end (n.)’

0508



PC



‘hide’

0509



C



‘to be, is’



C

ìchèrè

‘shell’

3’end’

0511

0499



‘laziness, lazy’

0512

‘soldier ants’

öbǫ



C

ósò

‘pepper (n.)’

0513

ìjérè

C



C



‘lose, lost, miss, missing’

0514

C





C



‘upset, hurt, sadden, pain (v.)’

0515

0498



ǹ員階tà



C



‘anger, angry (v.; n.)’

0516

‘heavy, hefty, difficult’

ǫ感



C

nwänyǫ

‘gently’, ‘gentle’, ‘carefully’, ‘slowly’, ‘stabilise’, ‘stable’ (adj.; n.)’

0517

ärüü nyį

ǹ探



C

kwé

‘agree, attest, complicity’, ‘believe’, ‘have faith’

0518

C

į柵



C

àkųkwà

‘tripod’, ‘cooking stand’

0519

0497



#



C

àmàrà

‘favour, grace (n.)’

0520

ǹ員階tà



C

ógwú

‘thorn, barb, prickle’

0521

ǫ感



C

òsòmà

‘affliction, distress’

0522

ǹ探



O

ìtìrì

‘dark, black’

0523

į柵



C

kpö

‘dry (v.), stiffen’

0524

#

0510

垣 葉 34



C

àbųbá

lock of hair (n.)

C



‘fly (v.)’

0528



C

ágwü

‘divination deity (pr. n.)’

0529



C

átürüü

‘sheep’

0530



C

ïgá

‘chain’

0531



C



‘sink’, ‘depth’, ‘deep’

0532



C

érírí

‘rope’, ‘string’

0533



C

gwá

‘tell’, ‘inform’

0534



C

kwá

‘push, shove, make contact; make to fall down’

0535



C



‘[ritual] oath, a swear, pact, vow’

0536



C

1höo 2ö錦 (ö:chïcö)

‘pick’, ‘grab’, ‘gather’ ‘choose’, ‘capture’ (v.); 2’desire’, ‘wanting’, ‘lust’, ‘hunger’

0537



C

kwü

‘hang’, ‘hook (v.)’



C

1 chí 2ḿgb襟 (ḿ:gbáchí)

1 ‘firm, shut, firmly,

secure’ 2 ‘roof’

0539

0527



‘that, those (p. n.; d.)’

0540

‘name (v.)’

áahų



C

ńsí

‘sorcery’

0541



C



C



‘worry, stress, over think’

0542

C





C

árrá

‘madness, insanity; recklessness, immorality’

0543

0526



ǹ員階tà



C

ṃgbá

‘wrestle, wrestling’

0544

‘ache, throb’

ǫ感



C

1ògénę 2é駆 (ékwé) 3á駆 (á:lü)

0545



ǹ探



C

òkè

‘portion’, ‘share’

0546

C

į柵



C

gwö

‘cure (v.)’, ‘solve’

0547

0525



#



C

kpö

‘close’, ‘stuff’

0548

ǹ員階tà



C

ágbàrà

‘deities; magic’

0549

ǫ感



C



‘to open, to close, spread’

0550

ǹ探



N

1nyá 2kp遇 (kp:é)

1,2‘row, paddle, steer; drive’

0551

į柵



C

kwü

‘uphold’, ‘stand’

0552

#

0538

垣 葉 35



C

ákàrákà

‘fate, destiny’

1,

3

2 ‘gong’

‘bell’

C



‘protect’, ‘save’, ‘safety’

0556



C

kïrï

‘little, miniscule, tiny, small’

0557



C

kpö

‘set fire’, ‘blaze’, ‘ablaze’ ’shoot’

0558



C



‘cook’, ‘boil’, ‘fry’, ‘heat’

0559



C

ǫdų

‘tail; end, last’

0560



C

ödü

‘ivory’, ‘elephant tusk’

0561



PC

ödö

‘pool’, ‘pond’, ‘body of water’

0562



PC

ödų

‘clump’

0563



PC

ǫdüḿ

‘lion’

0564



C



‘remaining, left’

0565



C



‘pinch, poke’



C

ṃgbòdò

‘protection’

0567

0555



‘bond’

0568

‘small’, ‘little’, ‘bit’, ‘mini’

ágbü



C



‘support’

0569

ńtà

C



C



‘praise’, ‘pay homage’

0570

C





C

1dáa 2k係 (k:ïtàa)

1’daily’, ‘periodically’ 2‘at hand’, ‘now’, ‘today’

0571

0554



ǹ員階tà



C

gbá

‘spread’, ‘infest’

0572

1 ‘collection, heap’ 2 ‘pile’

ǫ感



C

èhì

‘when’; ‘at that time’; ‘age’; ‘period’

0573

1ìkpó 2ǫ屈 (ǫ:kpų)

ǹ探



C



‘sunrise’, ‘rise’, ‘dawn’ (v.)

0574

C

į柵



C

1gà 2啓台 (g:ï)

0575

0553



#



C

ágádí

‘ancient, old person, elderly’

0576

ǹ員階tà



C

ḿgbį

‘orphan, destitute’

0577

ǫ感



C

ǫnųmà

‘grudge’, ‘anger’

0578

ǹ探



C

ábų

‘poem’, ‘song’, ‘hymn’

0579

į柵



C

1ǫzǫ 2à敬 (à:dáká)

0580

#

0566

垣 葉 36



C

öchïchï

1,

2 ‘will’, ‘going

to’

2 ‘ape’, ‘primate’

1,

‘leadership’, ‘rule’ (n.)

C

àbö

‘plantation’

0584



C

àbǫshį

‘shrub’

0585



C

0586



MM

ǫchų

‘murder’, ‘corpse’

0587



C

àbá

‘flatness’, ‘horizontal’

0588



C



‘be wide’, ‘spread, ‘stretch’, ‘distribute’

0589



C

àbàlà

‘iroko fruit’

0590



C

ǫnyà

‘trap, snare, net’

0591



C

àbàchà

‘cassava’

0592



C

ìbó

‘wood, wooden, box, coffin’

0593



C

gbá

‘run’, ‘move’, ‘leak’, ‘flow’



C

ékwé

‘wood’

‘this, these (d.)’

0595

0583



‘excreta’

0596

‘drink, sip; consume’





C

òkwòrí

‘king fisher’

0597

ñü

PC



C

nwę

‘have’, ‘possess’

0598

C





C

‘him’, ‘her’, ‘it’

0599

0582



ǹ員階tà



C

‘him’, her’, ‘it’ [nonnasal]’

0600

‘another, next; again’

ǫ感



C

chü

‘chase’, ‘follow’

0601

ǫzö

ǹ探



C



‘calm’, ‘stable’, ‘calmness’

0602

C

į柵



O

ügwá

‘adultery’

0603

0581



#



C

ńnyòmì

‘imitation’, ‘example’

0604

ǹ員階tà



C

tákwú

‘whisper’, ‘murmur’

0605

ǫ感



C

1ńgwá 2決決 (ńgwá:ńgwá)

1 , 2 ‘quick’, ‘quickly’, ‘fast’

0606

ǹ探



C



‘stand’, ‘raise’, ‘lift’

0607

į柵



MM



‘create, make’

0608

#

0594

垣 葉 37



N

tụ

[affix] ‘a little’, ‘a bit’, ‘-ish’

0611



C



‘measure’

0612



C

ótú

‘port’, ‘edge’, ‘opening’

0613



C

ìfùfè

‘air’

0614



S

ènyò

‘mirror’

0615



PC

èjìmá

‘twin’, ‘twins’

0616



C



‘press’, ‘rub’

0617



PC



‘wrap’, ‘tie’, ‘fasten’

0618



C



‘leak’

0619



C



‘announce’

0620



S

ákpïrï

‘larynx’

0621



C

ólú

‘neck’, ‘hole’, ‘tube’



C

1 kwá 2ìk堅 (ìk:ìrì)

1 ‘cough (v.)’ 2 ‘dry cough’

0623

‘carry’, ‘scoop’, ‘fetch’ ‘move up’

ükwà

‘breadfruit’

0624



PC



C

àgwà

‘island’, ‘isle’

0625

C





S

úkpé

‘lamp’, ‘torch’, ‘lighter’

0626

0610



ǹ員階tà



S

érùlù

‘coral’

0627

‘throw’, ‘move’

ǫ感



O

ṃgbè

‘female, maiden’

0628



ǹ探



S

1ölà 2â権 (à:bà) 3àgb権 (à:gbų:gbà)

1 ‘bright metal’, ‘jewel’, ‘jewellery’ 2 ‘metal bar’ 3 ‘zinc’, ‘metal’

0629

N

į柵



S

àchàrà

‘bamboo’

0630

0609



#



O

òpì

‘horn’, ‘trumpet’

0631

ǹ員階tà



N

àkpàtì ì謙 (ì:gbé)

‘box, luggage’

0632

ǫ感



S

ùbé

‘Ube fruit’

0633

ǹ探



C

1ógólógó 2é繭(é:kèléké)

0634

į柵



N

éfù

‘empty’, ‘zero’, ‘naught’

0635

#

0622

垣 葉 38



C

éfùléfù

‘emptiness’, ‘vagabond’, ‘sell out’, ‘traitor’, ‘drifter’

1 ‘long’, ‘tall’,

‘length’

2 ‘stilts, stilt dance’

垣 葉 39

S

ùgóo



C

àgwà

ḿányá

‘drink’, ‘alcohol’

C



‘print’, ‘create’, ‘produce’, ‘publish’

C

wárá

‘narrow’ (adj.)

C

nwó

‘pluck’, ‘pick’

C

ámá

‘square’, ‘court’, ‘grounds’, ‘quad’, ‘plaza’

C

ámá

‘town’

C

1 gbée 2k己 (k:ųsï)

1 , 2 ‘stop, park’

C

ízù

‘week’

‘eagle’

‘hue’, ‘colour’

0650



S

0651



‘chewing stick’, ‘tooth brush’, ‘floss’

C



‘bend’, ‘twist’

0652



átü

股 孤

C

ńkïtá

‘dog’

0653

0645



O

àtų



C

gbö

‘bark, shout’

0654

0644



‘whip (v.), flog’

C



C

ghé

‘open (adj.), gaping, wide’

0655

0643





‘switch’

2 ‘club, weapon’



‘model, fashioned after, template, muse, reference’, ‘comparison’, advice, instruction



C

rghé

‘cook’, ‘fry’, ‘burn’

0656

0642



C

1 ‘cane’, ‘whip’,

ǹ員階tà



C

óféré

‘easy’, ‘ease’, ‘passable’, ‘overcome able’

0657

0641



1 įtàlį 2ó幻 (ó:kpì)

ǫ感



C



‘separate’, ‘split’, divide’

0658

0640



S

‘lizard’

ǹ探



C

ùmé

‘energy’, ‘strength’

0659

0639



ńgwęrę

į柵



C

áká

‘length’, ‘distance’

0660

0638



C

#



O



‘bad’, ‘ugly’ (adj.)

0661

0637



ǹ員階tà



C

chí

‘day’

C

1író 2ü錮 (ü:gwü) 3ü錮目 (ü:gwü:ányá) 4nį

1,2‘hate’, ‘enmity’, ‘grudge’ 3’evil eye’, ‘envy’, ‘hate’, ‘jealousy’ 4’despise’, ‘overlook’, ‘forgive’, ‘endure insult’

0662

0636



0646

ǫ感

0647

ǹ探

0648

į柵

0649

#



N

òtìlè

‘buttocks’

0666



N

úkwù

waist; [colloquial:] butt, ass, arse

0667



N

àbųbà

‘fat, lard’ (n.)

0668



C



‘strike’, ‘hit’, ‘smack’, ‘flog’, ‘beat’, ‘pump’, ‘drum’

0669



C

gbá

‘change’, ‘exchange’, ‘spoil’

0670



C

ǹdó

‘sorry’, ‘apologies’, ‘condolences’

0671



C

gbò

‘prevent’, ‘block’

0672



C

ǹdò

‘shade (n.)’

0673



S

1sá 2z公 (z:á)

1 ‘answer (v.)’ 2 ‘answer name (v.)’

0674



PC



‘sweep’, ‘clean’

0675



C

ötö

‘vertical’, ‘standing’



C

ézí

‘real, proper (adj.)’

0677

0665



‘hundred’

0678

‘move’, ‘run’, ‘drive’, ‘play’, ’kick’

ńárí



C

púkú

‘thousand’

0679

gbá

C



C

gbóo

‘ancient’, ‘early’, ‘old’, ‘ago’

0680

C





C

üpá

‘soil’, ‘earth’

0681

0664



ǹ員階tà



C



‘guess (v.)’

0682

‘shrine’, ‘deity’, ‘divine’

ǫ感



C



‘straight’, ‘correct’ ‘good, ‘moral’

0683

árüsï

ǹ探



C

ǹdèlè

‘track (n.)’

0684

C

į柵



C

àgbàtà

‘boundary line’

0685

0663



#



C

chá

‘give way, yield’

0686

ǹ員階tà



C

chá

‘reveal, unravel, demystify’

0687

ǫ感



C

ùgbò

‘cave’

0688

ǹ探



C

1úkòrò 2坑強強 (úkòrò:gwų:gwų)

1‘hollow’, ‘pit’, ‘trench’, ‘gutter’ 2’vault’, ‘dome’

0689

į柵



C

ǹgà

‘slim’, ‘trim’, ‘thin’, ‘tiny’

0690

#

0676

垣 葉 40



C

ákíríká

‘dry vegetation’, ‘dried leave’, ‘tumble weed’, ‘cardboard’, ‘card’, ‘board’

ńsáḿ

‘shellfish’

0695



C

òkìrìkìrì

‘circle’, ‘round’, ‘circular’, ‘disk’

0696



C

ńú

‘salt’, ‘salty’



C

ìyéré

‘valley’

1chí 2ń厚rí (ń:chí:rí)



C

ǹkïtį

‘common’, ‘generic’, ‘everyday’, ‘ordinary’, ‘simple’, ‘plain’, ‘basic’



PC

1ǹkïtį [ : ] 2

1 ‘silence; ignore’ 2 ‘quiet, silence’



C

ǫchä

‘white (colour); clean; bright; blank’

0702

C



C

èzí

‘outdoors’, ‘outside’, ‘periphery’ ‘public’, ‘wild’, ‘feral’, ‘bush’, ‘forest’

0703



1‘cup’, ‘cup in hand’, ‘cupping’ ‘carry’, ‘grab’, ‘scoop’, ‘enclose’, ‘take all’ 2’storage’, stow’, ‘stowaway’, ‘store’



C

ókwú

‘match’, ‘friend’

0704

C

0705

0694



1 ‘common neighbour’, ‘peer’ 2 ‘peer’, ‘age mate’

0706

‘laugh’, ‘smile’, ‘chuckle’

1 íbè 2 é香 (é:bìrì)



C

1ájíríjá 2í候 (í:yì)

1‘pebble’ 2’small pebble’

0707

chį



C



C

ųdà

‘sound’; ‘effect’; a say, entitlement’

0708

C

‘poverty’, ‘poor’, ‘destitute’



C

ñò

‘borrow’

0709

0693



ùbìàṃ



C



‘lower’

0710

‘wilderness’, ‘wild’, ‘bush’, ‘outskirts’, ‘foreign’, ‘forest’, ‘nature’

C



C



‘confess’

0711

ágü





C

óbé

‘cross (n.)’

0712

0692



C

ǹ員階tà



C

gwá

‘mix, stir’

0713

‘grass, weed’

ǫ感



C

òdìdì

‘shape’, ‘size’

0714

áfïfïá

ǹ探



C

ögügü

‘number, call’

0715

C

į柵



C

ǫkpǫlè

‘vehicle’, ‘wheel’, ‘baby walker’

0716

0691



#



C



‘study, learn’

0717

ǹ員階tà

0698

ǫ感

0699

ǹ探

0700

į柵

0701

#

0697

垣 葉 41



C



‘rest’, ‘recharge’, ‘charge’

ghá

‘change’, ‘return’, ‘reverse’, ‘subvert’

0721



C

1ghà 2gh絞 (gh:ù) 3é核絞 (é:b:ì)

0722



C



‘mature, become old, age (v.)’

0723



C

òfè

‘far side of river/road’

0724



C

ǹsó

‘near’, ‘close’, ‘soon’

0725



C

àgbà

‘colour’, ‘color’

0726



PC

àgwà

‘attitude’, ‘character’, ‘attribute’, ‘feature’, ‘behaviour’, ‘property’

0727



C



‘plan’, ‘meet’ (v.)

0728

稿

C

ǹchì

‘cane rat’

0729



C

ǹdè

‘million’

0730



C

ánwü

‘mosquito’



C

éré

‘floor’, ‘storey’

1 ‘overtake’, ‘pass’,

‘surpass’

2 ‘change’, ‘turn’ 3 ‘tornado (n.)’



C

èhíhnyę

‘noon’



C

ṃgbèdè

‘evening’



MMF

C

0732

0720



‘sell’, ‘auction’

0733

‘festival’



0734

ágügü

C

0735

C



ǫgbö

‘age-set, age group’

0736

0719



ǹ員階tà



PC



‘smell (v.)’

0737

‘mist’, ‘haze’, ‘cloudiness’

ǫ感



C

kwá

‘restore, well’

0738

álųlü

ǹ探



C



‘hear, perceive’

0739

C

į柵



C

dòzí

‘repair’, ‘correct’, ‘manage’, ‘restore’, ‘maintain’

0740

0718



#



C

àgbǫ

‘descent’, ‘family’, ‘lineage’

0741

ǹ員階tà



N

ṃgbàdà

‘slope, descent’

0742

ǫ感



C



‘turn’

0743

ǹ探



C

àmàrà

‘paddle’

0744

į柵



C

ùdè

‘swamp’

0745

#

0731

垣 葉 42



C

ùdè

‘fame’

C

ényì

‘friend’, ‘lover’, ‘partner’



C

ókà

‘expire’, ‘spoil’, ‘stale’



C

1ǹkúmè 2ǫ今 (ǫ:mų) 3á今医 (á:gb:á)



C

1rù 2 ń困 (ń:rò)

2 ‘smooth’



C

úrùkpù

‘cloud’



C



‘fan’, ‘blow’, ‘breeze’, ‘spray’



C

ùdèlè

‘vulture’



C

ųkpàrá

‘grasshopper’



C

òsèkè

‘spade, short shovel’

1 ‘rock’, ‘stone’,

‘pebble’

2 ‘whetstone’

3 ‘phallic’, ‘phallus’

1 ‘soften’

0760



0761

‘morning’

C

ńjàkïrï

‘joke, friendly joking, tease’

0762

ųtütų

紺 墾

C

1 ųkpá 2è墾 (è:bérè)

1 ‘a walk, friendship’, ‘wandering’, ‘strolling’ 2 ‘pity’

0763

C

‘pick’, ‘pluck’, ‘pinch’, ‘strum’



C

ógó

‘height’, ‘tallness’

0764







C

gbá

‘break’, ‘smash’, ‘strike’, ‘explode’

0765

‘type’, ‘sort’, ‘kind’, ‘species’, ‘property’

C



C

gbà

‘grow big’, ‘thicken’, ‘strengthen’

0766

ùdì dì





C

chá

‘ripen, mature’

0767

C

ǹ員階tà



C



‘be far’, ‘distant’, ‘distant in time’, ‘long in time’, ‘far’

0768



ǫ感



C



‘draw, illustrate. film, take photo’

0769

‘tan, take in sun, warm, burn’

ǹ探



C

èrèrè

‘useful’, ‘profitable’

0770

nyáa

į柵



C

óghó

‘cotton’

0771

C

#



C

únè

‘banana’

0772

0746 0747 0748



0749

‘cloudiness, dimness’

0750

bìrì

0751

C



0752

‘abroad, over the water, overseas’

0753

ùfèsì

0754

C



0755

ǹ員階tà

0756

ǫ感

0757

ǹ探

0758

į柵

0759

#



C

ákpü

‘cotton tree’

0773

垣 葉 43



C



‘equalise, equate, equal’

‘set up’, ‘keep’, ‘maintain’, ‘restore’

0777



C

1àkàrà 2ǹ妻 (ǹ:gólú)

1 ‘sign’, ‘mark’, ‘insignia’, ‘character’, ‘sign’, ‘omen’ 2 ‘pattern’

0778



C

ùlòlò

‘exit’

0779



C

àkà

‘tick’ [insect]

0780



C

ǫzàrà

‘spear grass’

0781



C

ǫtųkpà

‘creeping grass’

0782



C

àjų

‘dizzy, disorientated’

0783



C

pï kpï

‘press’, ‘hit’, ‘gather’, ‘constrict’

0784



C

kwò

‘snore’

0785



C

kpù

‘lose flavour’, ‘tasteless’, ‘stale’ (v.)

0786



C

1jų 2ö細 (ö:wǫlį)

1‘chill’, ‘cool’ 2‘open space by the river or stream’



C

ödįdà

‘waterfall’

0788



0789

C

‘wonder’, ‘amazing’, ‘full of ora’, ‘unbelievable’, ‘out of the question’



C

ńé

‘plentiful, plenty, large, many’

0790

0776



égwù



C

òwú

‘wool’

0791

‘in-law’, ‘be related by marriage’, ‘bride wealth’, ‘bride price’



C



C

zìzò

‘mimic (v.)’

0792



ǹ員階tà



C

òsìkápá

‘rice’

0793

0775



C

ǫ感



C



‘borrow’

0794

‘suffer, suffering, trouble, difficulty’

ǹ探



C

sępànįpà

‘geek’, ‘nerd’, ‘lame’, ‘weakling’

0795

áfüfü

į柵



C

gbè

‘mix’, ‘grind’, ‘mash’

0796

0774



C

#



C

zúzù

‘act stupid, stupidity, procrastinate’

0797

ǹ員階tà



C

örü

‘weakness’, ‘fault’, ‘flaw’, ‘defect’, ‘handicap’

0798

ǫ感



C

ögbà

‘row’, ‘line’

0799

ǹ探



C

ńdìlì

‘line, stroke; boundary’

0800

į柵



C

ṃbà

‘laziness

0801

#

0787

垣 葉 44



C

ǫdàchì

‘hindrance, blockage’

0807



C



‘lie’, ‘deceive’



C

ghá

‘scatter; repeat’



C

íbé

‘pledge’, ‘mortgage’, ‘hostage’, ‘collateral’



C

úbú

‘shoulder’



PC

òsè

‘foreleg’



C

ühà

‘stale’



C

ùbù

‘fishing net’



C

ìdè

‘waterside’



C

èbò

‘residential unit’, ‘tribe’, ‘lineage’

1 ‘design’, ‘mark’,

‘sign’ 2 ‘art, craft’

0816

1kà 2ǹ柵 (ǹ:kà)

0817

0806



C

0818

‘cocoyam’



C

úbóḿ

‘sandbank’, ‘beach’

0819

édé

C

1‘announce’, ‘proclaim’ 2’town crier’ 3’news’, ‘report’, ‘bulletin’



C

ákpökü

‘shoe’

0820

C



1lį 2衣拶(ónyé:ǫlįlį) 3ǫ拶(ǫlįlį)



C

1 ǫkükǫ 2ú撮 (ú:bì)

1 ‘chicken’ 2 ‘cockatrice’

0821

0805



1‘night’, ‘darkness’ 2’night’, ‘dark’, ‘evening’, ‘eve’, ‘night before’



C

ügųrų

‘harmattan’

0822

‘bed’

1ùchįchį 2ǹ刹 (ǹ:chįchį)



C

ágü

‘bush’

0823

àkwà



C



C

ámúósú

‘witch, vampire’

0824

C

ǹ員階tà



C

ògbòmà

‘wizard’, ‘sorcerer’

0825

0804



ǫ感



C

ònwènè

‘carpenter’, ‘carpentry’

0826

‘family, relative’

ǹ探



C

òsìsè

‘drawing’, ‘sketch’, ‘portrait’, ‘art’

0827

íkwú

į柵



C



‘pull’, ‘draw’, ‘drag’, ‘tug’

0828

C

#



C



‘seduce’

0829

0803



0808

‘office, position; announcement’

0809

ökwá

0810



C

0811

ǹ員階tà

0812

ǫ感

0813

ǹ探

0814

į柵

0815

#

0802

垣 葉 45



C

ónyìnyó

‘shadow’

ùdú

‘season’

0833



C

1 chà 2酸強 (í:sí)

1 ‘cut’, ‘snip’ 2 ‘end’

0834



C



‘go up’, ‘climb’, ‘crawl’

0835



C

ǫnǫdų

‘condition’, ‘position’, ‘rank’, ‘state’, ‘seat’

0836



C

1ńgwá 2暫暫 (ńgwó:ńgwó)

1’belongings’, ‘tools’ 2‘luggage’

0837



C

ǫrà

‘health’

0838



C

òsè

‘bank’, ‘waterside’, ‘riverside’

0839



C

ḿbìbì

‘borrowing’

0840



MF

ḿà

‘knife’

0841



C

ápįtï

‘mud’

0842



C

úbì

‘farm’



C

ìhù

‘illumination’, ‘light’, ‘glow’, ‘ray’



C

mébì

‘spoil’, ‘become bad’



C



‘wash’, ‘rinse’



C

ökų

‘fishing’



C

1 gwú 2r伺 (r:ö)

1 ‘play’ 2 ‘play’, ‘celebrate’



C



‘laugh, smile (v.)’



C

ábìà

‘drum’

使

C



‘choose’, ‘ordain’



MMF

C

0844

0832



‘heat’, ‘hot’

0845

‘temptation’

ökpömökü

0846

ńrànyé

C

0847

C



0848

0831



ǹ員階tà

0849

‘uproot’, ‘weed’

ǫ感

0850



ǹ探

0851

C

į柵

0852

0830



#

ḿgbídí

‘mud wall’

0853

ǹ員階tà



PC

ájá

‘wall’

0854

ǫ感



S

ńkpörö

‘jail, prison’

0855

ǹ探



C

ékè

‘creation’

0856

į柵



C



‘return’

0857

#

0843

垣 葉 46



C



‘good’, ‘be good’

0861



MM

ùkwé

‘sing’

0862



C

àbànà

‘wateryam’

0863



C

1 ákpükpö 2 ṃ恣 (ṃ:gbügbǫ)

0864



C

ábü

‘pus’

0865



PC

ḿgbö

‘bullet’

0866



PC

ṃgbǫ

‘waterleaf’

0867



C

ḿgbú

‘pain’, ‘suffering’, ‘depression’

0868



PC

ṃgbùlùgùdù

‘abyss’, ‘large hole’

0869



PC



‘dry’, ‘evaporate’

0870



PC

1 mï 2ch嗣 (ch:į)

1, 2‘slip’



PC

1mį 2ų試 (ų:mï)

1‘suck’, ‘absorb’, ‘sip’ 2’conduit’, ‘pipe’, ‘tube’

1 ‘skin’ 2 ‘leather’,

‘membrane’



PC

nàa

‘that’, ‘is’, ‘isn’t’ (negatve)



PC

kpà

‘tie’, ‘pressurise’, ‘capture’, ‘seize’, ‘clamp’, ‘squeeze’, ‘press’, ‘attack’



PC

ṃkpà

‘forceps’, ‘tongs’, ‘scissors’



C

ǹgàjì

‘spoon’



C

ǹdųdų

‘fork’



C

ṃkpà

‘scarcity’, ‘scarce’



C

ḿkpárï

‘insult (n.)’



MMF

‘family’

0872

ǫnųmà

‘bear fruit’, ‘sprout’

0873

C



0874

0860



PC

0875

‘nest’



0876

MMF

àkwü

ǹ員階tà

0877

0859



ǫ感

0878

‘goose’

ǹ探

0879

MMF

ǫkwà

į柵

0880

0858

姿

#

ókpòrò

‘stalk’, ‘rod’, ‘stem’

0881

ǹ員階tà



PC

ṃkpàrà

‘type of mat’

0882

ǫ感



C

ṃkpí

‘he-goat’

0883

ǹ探



C

ṃkpìlìtè

‘small mortar (n.)’

0884

į柵



PC

ṃkpìlìkpì

‘particle’, ‘fragment’

0885

#

0871

垣 葉 47



PC

ṃkpìlìsì

‘shortness’, ‘stump’



‘twist’, ‘braid’, ‘wring’ (v.)



C

ököchí

‘dry season’



C

böo

breaking of day (v.)



PC



‘be difficult’



C

1kwà 2ń餌 (ń:kwà)



PC



‘clean’, ‘wipe (v.)’

鹿

C



‘worship (v.), praise’



C

ékíké

‘dress’, ‘attire’ ‘adornment (n.)’



C

kèdú

‘hello’, ‘how are you’



C



‘stretch’

1 ‘support’, ‘help’,

‘uphold’ (v.)’ 2 ‘promise’

0900

C

0901



ékìkì

‘rim’

0902

‘crossbow’

C



C



‘wake’

0903

ákpédé





C



‘rub’, ‘paint’

0904

O

‘build’, ‘establish’



C



‘narrate’, ‘report’, ‘discuss’

0905

0889







C

1dü 2s収 (s:ü) 3ń収 (ń:dü) 4w収 (w:ò)

1, 2‘stab’, ‘inflict’ 3’point’, ‘needle’ 4’bore’, ‘poke’

0906

‘society (n.)’

C



PC



‘compress’

0907

ögbá





PC

sụ

‘grunt’

0908

C

ǹ員階tà



O



‘soak’, ‘submerge’, ‘drown’

0909

0888



ǫ感



PC

1gbö 2s秀 (s:ụ)

1‘boil’, ‘bubble’, ‘foam’, ‘froth’ 2‘boil’

0910

‘cliff’, ‘steep place’

ǹ探



PC



‘pound’, ‘mash’, ‘hit’, ‘begin’, ‘start’, ‘engulf’

0911

ḿkpógó

į柵



C



‘weigh’

0912

C

#



C

òtèrè

‘anus’

0913

0886 0887



0891

1‘section of seed/ nut (n.)’ 2’seed’

0892

1ṃkpį 2á侍 (á:bųrų)

0893

PC

0894



0895

ǹ員階tà

0896

ǫ感

0897

ǹ探

0898

į柵

0899

#

0890

垣 葉 48



C

ímí

‘nose’, ‘snot’



‘throw’, ‘point’, ‘inflict’, ‘turn on’

0917



S

èkwùrù

‘peacock’

0918



PC

ṃkpú

‘volume’, ‘shouting’

0919



PC

ḿkpü

shortness; hunch (n.)

0920



PC

ḿkpú

‘anthill’, ‘mound’

0921



O

ékèléké

‘stilts’, ‘stilt dance’

0922



PC

ṃkpö

‘pole’

0923



PC

ṃkpö

‘can (n.)’

0924



PC

1ḿkpóḿkpó 2ǹ酬 (ǹ:tìrì)

1‘rubbish’, ‘heap’, ‘landfill’ 2’dirt’, ‘dirty’, ‘filth’, ‘germs’

0925



PC

1té 2ú醜 (ú:té)

1‘move’, ‘flex’, ‘turn’, ‘dance’ 2’engine’, ‘system’

0926



C



stammer (n.)



PC

gbö

‘vomit’, ‘produce’ (v.)

0928

C

‘red’

0929

0916



ùgò



C

ṃgbàlà

‘wide’, ‘width’

0930

‘stomach’, ‘belly’, ‘tummy’, ‘rubbery enclosure’

PC



C

ǹchì

‘corner’

0931

áfö





C

ṃgbàrà

‘compound, court, quarters’

0932

0915



C

ǹ員階tà



C

ǹgúrú

‘compound’

0933

‘jaw’

ǫ感



C

1ègwè 2ï銃 (ï:gá)

0934

àgbà

ǹ探



C

ṃgbà

‘island/obstruction in river’

0935

C

į柵



C



‘wet’, ‘dampen’, ‘flood’, ‘inundate’

0936

0914



#



C

úzúzù

‘sand, sandy’

0937

ǹ員階tà



C

ęnwę

‘monkey’

0938

ǫ感

宿

C

gbághà

‘forgive’

0939

ǹ探



C

àzà

0940

į柵



C

àgbàrà

‘four cornered seat’

0941

#

0927

垣 葉 49



C

ògbòlòo

‘heifer’

1 ‘compound wall,

fence’

2 ‘ citadel’

1 ‘money store,

safe’

2 ‘bank’

C

ásá

‘asa fish’

0945



C

ḿkpökörü

‘worthless’

0946



C

íbèríbè

‘stupid’, ‘fool’

0947



C

ńsókwù

‘stupid’, ‘foolish’

0948



C

ábö

‘cross roads’, ‘junction’, ‘crossing’

0949



C

ábö

‘long basket’

0950



C

áböshį

‘back door’, ‘gate’

0951



C

ágbügbö

‘banana husk’

0952



C

áká

‘bead’

0953



C

ábóbó

‘[bead type]’

0954



C

ábúrú

‘mashed nuts’



C

ícúcú

‘company’, ‘industry’

0956

0944



‘choose, pick; favour, prefer; choice’

0957

‘bottle’





C

àgbǫnǫ

‘wild mango’

0958

ábá

C



C

ágbálágádá

‘thunder’

0959

C





MM

òbí

‘mans’ quarters’, ‘building’, ‘base’

0960

0943



ǹ員階tà



C

àgbàrà

‘powerful woman, rich woman’

0961

‘gaping wound’

ǫ感



C

1 ábüzų 2 ì処 (ìgùrùbè)

0962

ábá

ǹ探



C

áfüfá

‘garden egg’

0963

C

į柵



C

àmà

‘time’, ‘hour’

0964

0942



#



C

ųsà

‘excuse (n.)’

0965

ǹ員階tà



C

zùzò

‘secret, private’

0966

ǫ感



C

òwú

‘spirit’, ‘water-spirit’, ‘mermaid’

0967

ǹ探



C

ágbá

‘rendezvous’

0968

į柵



C

ágbádá

‘double edge knife’

0969

#

0955

垣 葉 50



C

àkòtù

‘big roots’

2

1 ‘cricket’

‘locust, swarm’

‘swamp’

0973



C

gǫsï

‘show, display, post’

0974



C

ǫbànnté

‘underwear’, ‘pants’, ‘loincloth’

0975



PC

ákpü

‘cassava’

0976



PC

ákpų

‘knot’, ‘cyst’, ‘tumour’, ‘lump’, ‘hump’

0977



C

ńchárá

‘rust’, ‘brown’

0978



O

ǫgų

‘fight (n.)’

0979



MF

1kpé 2é匠 (é:kpé)

1 ‘struggle in judgement, court case (v.)’ 2 ‘will, decree’

0980



PC

ǫgų

‘hoe’

0981



C

öbá

‘yam store’, ‘barn’

0982



C

ǹdè

‘disappear’, ‘invisibility’



PC

ǹdè

‘sickly’

0984

ḿbö

‘coil (v.)’

0985

PC

‘thirst (v.)’

2 ‘famine’

gwǫ



C

gwù

‘dig’

0986

0972



1 ‘desire’, ‘hunger’,

C



PC

gwù

‘swim’

0987

1gü 2親序 (ü:gà)





PC



‘rattle’, ‘jangle’, ‘shake and make noise’, ‘swing’

0988

0971



C

ǹ員階tà



C

chí

‘tap’ ‘palm-wine tapper’

0989

‘thread [beads] (v.)’

ǫ感



C

ónù

‘hole’, ‘pit’

0990



ǹ探



C

ńtü

‘chalk’, ‘chalk stones’

0991

C

į柵



C

àyǫrǫ

‘cowrie’, ‘cowry’

0992

0970



#



C

gwé

‘grind’

0993

ǹ員階tà



C

ǹgų gų

‘lung’, ‘lungs’, ‘console’

0994

ǫ感



C

kwó

‘pluck’

0995

ǹ探



C

íré

‘[elephant] trunk’

0996

į柵



C

òtógbó

‘gown’, ‘tunic’, ‘dress’

0997

#

0983

垣 葉 51



PC

òtòbò

‘hippo’

垣 葉 52

įtà

1002



C

ákïkö

1003



C

égbèrè

1004



C



1005



C



1006



C

ésú



C

ọbę



PC

ṃbá



O

ükà



S

ànyįṃ



C

ǹgwù

‘story’, ‘history’, ‘myth’, ‘fable’

‘story’, ‘tale’, ‘history’, ‘discussion’

‘lip’, ‘lips’

‘dream’, ‘think’

‘vibrate’, ‘reverberate’, ‘shake’ ‘murmur’ ‘mutter’

‘centipede’

‘difficult’

‘complaint’, ‘complain’, ‘anger’

‘dispute’, ‘quarrel’, ‘argument’

‘river’

‘hook’

1012

C

1013

1001



‘loincloth’, ‘underwear’, ‘pants’

ǹúu

‘much’, ‘big’, ‘large’, ‘uber’

1014

ǫgǫdǫ

PC



C

ųlü

‘middle child’

1015

C





PC

1ìchékú 2ú詳 (ú:nyì)

1016

1000







C



‘sneeze’

1017

‘size’

PC



C



‘avoid’, ‘be allergic to’, ‘dislike’, ‘prevent’, ‘save from’

1018

ńdęrę



‘metamorph’, ‘transform’, ‘change’, ‘mutate’; ‘become [ideal]’



PC

ųchïchá

‘cockroach’

1019

C

ǹ員階tà



PC

ökpà

‘cock’

1020

0999



ǫ感



PC

ḿgbö

‘ball’

1021

‘thigh’

ǹ探



C

ógwùlùgwù

‘rainbow’

1022

àpà

į柵



N

ógbè

‘sphere’, ‘spherical, ‘round’, ‘globe’

1023

C

#



C



‘slime’, ‘slimy’

1024

0998



1007

ǹ員階tà

1008

ǫ感

1009

ǹ探

1010

į柵

1011

#



PC



‘think’, ‘reflect’, ‘consider’

1 ‘coal’ 2 ‘soot’, ‘charcoal’,

‘ash’

1ńųnų 2kw状 (kw:ú)

1 ‘bird’, ‘pigeon’ 2 ‘have faith’, ‘pray’

1028



C



‘last, remain, alone (v.)’, ‘leave’, ‘abandon’

1029



C

ǹrù

‘service’, ‘bondage’, ‘homage’, ‘veneration’

1030



C

àlülü

‘blue’, ‘tree from which blue pigment is obtained’

1031



C

sọ

‘only’, ‘alone’

1032



C

ákö

‘wisdom’, ‘mind’

1033



C



‘direct’, ‘instruct’, ‘command’, ‘order’ ‘send’, ‘send on errand/mission’, ‘dictate’, ‘appoint’

1034



C

ùdà

‘competition’

1035



PC

ṃgbá

‘wax (n.)’

1036



S



‘push’, ‘nudge’, ‘tap’, ‘poke’

1037



C

úrì

‘indigo plant’, ‘indigo’, ‘blue’



PC

gbúrù

‘round’, ‘circular’; ‘circle’, ‘globe’

1039

S

1040

1027



‘skilled’, ‘devotee’, ‘professional’, ‘dedicated’, ‘expert’, ‘devotee’



PC

íkpèrè

‘knee’, ‘kneel’

1041

‘wing’, ‘sides’

òsú



C



‘be sized’

1042

ǹkų



C



C



‘distort’

1043

S

ǹ員階tà



PC

nwä

‘prove’, ‘test’, ‘challenge’ (v.), ‘endeavour’

1044

1026



ǫ感



C

ülü

‘pulp’

1045

‘crawl’; ‘move slowly’; ‘enter’, ‘sneak’, ‘hide’, ‘manoeuvre’

ǹ探



C

òtòkòotò

‘puddle’, ‘splash’

1046



į柵



PC

ógó

‘puberty; maturity, age’

1047

1025



PC

#



C

nyó

‘observe’, ‘look’, ‘pry’, ‘peep’, ‘inspect’, ‘check’, ‘spy’, ‘investigate’

1048

ǹ員階tà



C

kpàsú

‘provoke’, ‘evoke’, ‘irritate’

1049

ǫ感



C

1fü 2fį

1050

ǹ探



C

úrù

‘muscle’, ‘meat’

1051

į柵



C

àgìgà

‘coast’, ‘shore’

1052

#

1038

垣 葉 53



C



‘coloured’ (adj.), ‘blacken’, ‘darken’, ‘become black’

1 ‘blow’, ‘puff’,

‘exhale’

2 ‘blow’, ‘whistle’

C

ïhnyërë

‘shy’, ‘nervous’, ‘shy’, ‘embarrassed’

1056



C

ghà

‘mutate’, ‘mutation’

1057



C



‘also’

1058



C

ákwárà

‘vein’, ‘artery’

1059



C

kwé

‘grip’

1060



C

ńgódó

‘table’

1061



C

ñà

‘shake’, ‘stagger’, ‘quake’

1062



PC



‘mould’, ‘shape’, ‘contour’, ‘cast’

1063



PC

1rè 2ñ津 (ñ:à)

1’rot’, ‘decay’, ‘decompose’ 2‘spoil from sun’

1064



PC

1dé 2ñ神 (ñ:á)

1’melt’, ‘soften’ 2‘excess’

1065



PC

ǫfö 2ü唇 (ü:bö)

‘staff of office’, ‘justice’ ‘underwood’



PC

ñá

‘burn’, ‘scorch’

1067

1055



‘listen’, ‘observe’, ‘take advice’

1068

‘blur’

ñá



PC

ísì

‘smell, scent, odour’

1069

àtùtù

PC



C



‘wealthy, profit’

1070

C





PC

àjà

‘sacrifice (n.)’

1071

1054



ǹ員階tà



PC

ówú

‘stake’, ‘involvement’

1072

‘blindness, blind’

ǫ感



C

èbùbè

‘aura’, ‘wisdom’, ‘charm, ‘glory’, ‘wonder’, ‘miracle’, ‘stateliness’

1073

ìsì

ǹ探



PC

ńchí

‘tar’, ‘asphalt’

1074

C

į柵



PC

ötá

‘target, bulls eye’

1075

1053



#



PC

íkìrì

‘heel’

1076

ǹ員階tà



C

ńkö

‘sharpness, intelligence’

1077

ǫ感



S

ṃgbè

‘room’, ‘chamber’, ‘cell’, ‘private quarters’

1078

ǹ探



S

ökpötörö

‘bench’, ‘long chair’, ‘sofa’

1079

į柵



C

úkòrò

‘gutter’, ‘sewage’, ‘sewer’, ‘viaduct’, ‘inlet’

1080

#

1066

垣 葉 54



C

èzù

‘lake’, ‘wide waters’

C

éhìrì

‘pond’

1084



C

íḧì

‘reasoning’, ‘point’, ‘motive’

1085



PC

kwǫ

‘carry [on back], pick up’

1086



C

ümá

‘left over, change, tip [money] profit [n.]’

1087



PC

ńkö

‘side’, ‘edge’, ‘angle’

1088



PC

änü

‘meat’, ‘flesh’, ‘carnal’

1089



PC

ámá

‘witness’ (n.)

1090



PC



[become] ‘large’, ‘big’ (v.), ‘augment’

1091



C



‘fill up’, ‘swell’

1092



PC

hị

‘mark (v.)’

1093



C



‘compress, choke’



C

nyá

‘heal’

1095

1083



‘tell’, ‘relate’, ‘discuss’, ‘chat’, ‘gossip’

1096

‘courtyard’





PC

rọ

‘lift down’

1097

òró

C



PC



‘hurt’

1098

N





C

kpá

‘communicate’

1099

1082



ǹ員階tà



PC



‘bend’, ‘turn’

1100

‘desert’, ‘baron lands’

ǫ感



PC



‘rub’

1101

ǫzàrà

ǹ探



PC



‘flow [river]’

1102

C

į柵



C

hüü

‘roast’

1103

1081



#



PC



‘shake’, ‘shiver’

1104

ǹ員階tà



PC



lap [water] (v.)

1105

ǫ感



C

àkwü

‘window’

1106

ǹ探



C

gbàṃ

expression: “good”’

1107

į柵



PC



‘float’

1108

#

1094

垣 葉 55



C



‘pull’, ‘draw’, ‘stretch’, ‘smoke’, ‘suck’, ‘inhale’

1112



PC

ékpó

‘mask, masquerade’

1113



PC

ǫgbö

‘arena’, ‘grounds’, ‘place’, ‘area’

1114



C

ùkpóró

‘clod’

1115



C



‘hit, beat; play’

1116



PC

ákü

‘palm nut’

1117

西

C



‘clot’, ‘congeal’, ‘coagulate’

1118



PC

ḿbö

‘nail’, ‘claw’

1119



PC

1ülö 2 á制[á:kü] 3ṃ制 [ṃ:gbę]

1 ‘clay’ 2 ‘edible clay’ 3 ‘clay pot’



PC

kpü

‘mould’, ‘carve’, ‘create’

C

1ḿ 2征 (m: ) 3征 (m: ) 4 [ :]

‘[affix] ‘my’, ‘me’, ‘mine’, ‘myself’ ‘me’, ‘I’ [with verb] (contr.)’



1122

‘nail, spike’

1123

ǹtú

‘clinch, grasp’



PC

gbú

‘chop, fell, saw’

1124

PC

nwü



C

ákpǫ

‘chin’

1125

1111



C



C

ákïrįbö

‘coconut’

1126

PC

‘peel, cut, unravel’ 2 ‘peel off’, ‘skin’, ‘bleach’ (v.) 3 ‘scales (n.)’





PC

ànà

strange, queer

1127

1110



1bè 2kp裾 (kpé) 3 ík裾 (í:k:éríké)

ǹ員階tà



PC

ògbò

‘namesake’, ‘eponymous’

1128

‘tickle’

ǫ感



PC

ógó

‘sitting platform, bench, seat’

1129



ǹ探



PC

òkó

‘strength’, ‘endurance’

1130

C

į柵



C

ókókpòrò

‘bachelor’, ‘male virgin’

1131

1109



#



PC

òkù

‘invitation’, ‘feast’, ‘festival’, ‘dinner’

1132

ǹ員階tà



C

ókpókóró

‘container’, ‘empty container’, ‘shell’, ‘skull’

1133

ǫ感

婿

PC

kpè

‘heat up’, ‘become hot’, ‘engulf’, ‘singe’, ‘burn’

1134

ǹ探



C

kpù

‘put on, cap, close, seal, close with hand (v.)’

1135

į柵

1121

#

1120

垣 葉 56



C

kwù

‘cap’, ‘close’, ‘secure’, ‘enclose’, ‘seal’ (v.)’

1

C

óshí

‘theft’, ‘thief’, ‘thieving’, ‘stealing’, ‘illegal’

1139



PC

ögü

‘twenty, 20’

1140



PC

ńų

‘four hundred, 400’

1141



C

1ájï 2à請扇 (à:gb:à)

1142



PC



‘hit, knock’

1143



PC



‘kidnap’, ‘strangle’



PC



‘older than, to be senior’

1 ‘strands, fibre,

1145



PC



‘place, lay (v.); foundation’, ‘establish’

1146



PC



‘untie’, ‘unwrap’, ‘loosen’, ‘undo’

1147



PC



‘praise’, ‘glorify’, ‘flatter’

1148



PC



‘extol’, ‘praise’, ‘name’, ‘coin word’

1149

hair, follicles’ 2 ‘eyebrow’



PC



‘plant’, ‘stick’

1150

1138



‘build’, ‘erect’

1151

‘heap, pile’





PC



‘order, request’

1152

òbò

PC



C

kwù

‘breathe’, ‘fan’, ‘breeze’, ‘blow’

1153

C





PC



‘fling’, ‘throw’, ‘toss’

1154

1137



ǹ員階tà



PC



‘patterned (v.)’

1155

‘mantis’

ǫ感



PC

1tü 2ǹ戚 (ǹ:gàdà)

1‘measure’ 2’metre’, ‘measure of a foot’

1156

ókóńgóló

ǹ探



PC



‘scratch’, ‘stab’, ‘pinch’

1157

C

į柵



PC

tụ

‘drizzle (v.)’

1158

1136



#



PC



‘lie’, ‘tease’, ‘connive’, ‘deceive’

1159

ǹ員階tà



C

chú

‘industrious, enterprise, hard work, zest, eagerness, “fast”’

1160

ǫ感



C

ùdù

‘musical pot’

1161

ǹ探



PC

ùgbùrù

‘times, a multiple’

1162

į柵



PC



‘fold, halve, wrap’

1163

#

1144

垣 葉 57



C

íjíríjí

‘fog’, ‘mist’, ‘haze’

PC

íkó

‘mistress, concubine, beloved, best friend’

1167



C

1 ùzù 2ù摂 (ù:gòfų)

1 ‘vapour’ 2 ‘steam’

1168



C

ugbo

‘cell’

1169



PC

ųtàbà

‘tobacco’

1170



PC

àbö

‘thick forest’

1171



C

agbọ

‘growing calabash’

1172



PC

àgwà

‘beans’

1173



PC

àgwà

‘nostalgia; to miss someone’

1174



PC

óyí

‘disgust, ugly’

1175



PC

ágwö

‘raffia’

1176



PC

ńkü

‘dryness’, ‘dry’, ‘hardness’, ‘stiff’, ‘stiffness’



C

ámų

’testes, testicle’

1178

1166



’forehead’, ‘surface’, ‘facade’, ‘side’

1179

‘cup, container’

égédégé



C

ǹkölǫ

‘throat’, ‘pharynx’

1180

ìkó

PC



C

ńgǫ

‘wed money, bride wealth, “bride price”;

1181

C





PC

ńgó

‘bribe, bet, wager’

1182

1165



ǹ員階tà



PC

ńzá

‘cow tail, fly-whisk’

1183

‘round’ (adv.)

ǫ感



C

okule

‘storeroom’

1184

èhìrìṃéhì

ǹ探



PC

ékpé

‘widow’, ‘widower’

1185

C

į柵



N

ǹgwörö

‘lame’

1186

1164



#



PC

örá

‘slap’, ‘assault’ (n.)

1187

ǹ員階tà



C

órù

‘foreign land’, ‘marsh’, ‘riverside people’, ‘riverain’

1188

ǫ感



PC

gbá

‘shoot’

1189

ǹ探



PC



‘sharpen’, ‘aware’

1190

į柵



C

1, 2 mų

1 ‘shine (v.)’ 2 ‘glow (adj.)’

1191

#

1177

垣 葉 58



C

ökpü

‘spine, taproot’

C



‘sieve (v.)’

1195



C

ńkpílì

‘elbow’

1196



PC



‘consider, discuss’

1197



PC

ìhìtè

‘crossing’, ‘ford’ [geographical term]

1198



PC



‘bore (v.)’

1199



C

ìjí

‘fly (n.), flies’

1200



PC

íbómm

‘field’

1201



C

kwü

‘pay’

1202



C



‘move, walk, swagger, majestically’ sway

1203



C



‘knead’

1204



C



‘comb, rake (v.)’



C

ökwà

‘announcement’, ‘proclamation’

1206

1194



‘burn’, ‘clear by burning,’

1207

‘entire’, ‘all’, ‘totality’





C



‘dip’, ‘duck’

1208

chá

PC



C

shïshį

‘six pence, figure, figurative “nothing”’

1209

PC





PC

1 tá 2ö草草 (ötïtá)

1 ‘evaporate, dry up’ 2 ‘evaporation’

1210

1193



ǹ員階tà



C

ghį

negative affix

1211

‘all’, ‘altogether’, ‘totality’

ǫ感



PC



‘share’, ‘split’

1212

dùṃ

ǹ探



PC



‘sprinkle’

1213

C

į柵



PC

èzí

‘menses, menstruation, menstrual cycle’

1214

1192



#



C

ánétá

‘verandah’

1215

ǹ員階tà



C



‘swallow, engulf, eat, cover’

1216

ǫ感



C

nyü

‘extinguish’, ‘off’, ‘die’, ‘end’, ‘finish’, ‘die’ ‘down’, ‘turn off’, ‘snuff’

1217

ǹ探



PC



‘miss [road] (v.)’

1218

į柵



O

ìkpé

‘court case, judging, legal battle, fight’

1219

#

1205

垣 葉 59



C

íchì

‘placenta’



C

úrí

‘music’



PC

ànyįṃ

‘female tortoise’



C

ösüsö

‘sweat’



C

díḿkpà

‘adult’



C

kwëṃgbęṃ

‘periodically’; ‘occasionally’



C

ègbè

‘warrior’; ‘soldier’; ‘military’



C

úzì

‘semen’; ‘sperm’



C

jìké

‘prepare’; ‘dress’; ‘get ready’; ‘practice’; ‘rehearse’; ‘train’

1234

‘musical instruments’

1235

ékérè

ógbè

‘village’; ‘hamlet’; ‘quarter’; ‘compound’; ‘ward’

1236

C



C



C

ògbòǹdù

‘cannon’

1237



‘avenge’; ‘revenge’



C

ùmé

‘breath’

1238

‘stair, step’





C

ùkwú

‘fool’

1239

ǹkwà

C



C

ghö

‘trickery’, ‘craftiness’, ‘cunning’, ‘lie’, ‘fraud’, ‘fake’

1240

C





C

òwèrè

‘farmland’

1241



ǹ員階tà



PC

ï

‘to’ [prefix for action] ‘-ship’

1242

‘add’, ‘supplement’, ‘top up’; ‘also’, ‘plus’

1 kwá

ǫ感



C



‘assign’

1243

2 遭é (kw:é)

‘tailor’, ‘weave’ 3 ’spindle’

ǹ探



C



‘begin’, ‘start’, ‘intensify’

1244



3 á総核 (á:wkà:tü)

į柵



C

ébí

‘gong’, ‘bell’

1245



#



PC

ébì

‘staff’, ‘warrant‘

1246

PC

1220

1 , 2 ‘sew’, ‘stitch’,

1221

1 kwà 2 d総 (d:ü)

1222

C



1223

‘every’, ‘regular’

1224

kwá

1225

PC

1226

‘homestead’

1227

úḧú

1228

C



1229

ǹ員階tà

1230

ǫ感

1231

ǹ探

1232

į柵

1233

#



PC

ébì

‘porcupine’

1247

垣 葉 60



PC

íbì

‘hernia’

C

ègbènè

‘hen’

1251



PC

öjï

‘greeting, entertainment, gift, bribe’

1252



C

àwųrų

‘wolf’

1253



C

ǹjé

‘parasite, worm, sickly, affliction’

1254



C

ńdųkwü

‘sweet potato’

1255



PC

ïbá

‘hall’; ‘room’; ‘quarters’

1256



C

ügbàdá

‘seagull’

1257



C

àgbà

‘season’

1258



PC

ńdï

‘yam’; ‘yam tuber’

1259



PC

áwö

‘grey hair’; ‘aged hair’

1260



C

öhų

‘those’; ‘them’; ‘that’; ‘this’



C

öhų

‘vision’; ‘apparition’

1262

1250



‘vulva’

1263

‘bush cow’

öhnyü



C

édé

‘middle’

1264

átü

C



PC

kwö

‘wash [hands], rinse’

1265

PC





C

öbö

‘scabbard, sheath’

1266

1249



ǹ員階tà



PC

öbö

‘fish fillet’

1267

kind of tree

ǫ感



PC

öbǫ

‘trench’

1268

ògbú

ǹ探



PC

öbǫ

‘bowl, cup’

1269

C

į柵



PC

1öbǫ 2ö戴 (ö:kpá)

1 ‘palm, sole’ 2 ‘feet’

1270

1248



#



PC

ǫbö

‘heap, bundle’

1271

ǹ員階tà



C

1272

ǫ感



C

ǫchö

‘sweetness’; ‘sweet’; ‘tooth’

1273

ǹ探



C

ödá

‘sacred grove’; ‘woods‘

1274

į柵



C

ödà

‘he-goat’

1275

#

1261

垣 葉 61



C

ǫdö

‘farm land’; ‘land dominated by one crop’

1 árǫ 2 ǫ沢 (ǫ:bǫdǫ)

1,

2 ‘spear’

C

ųmá

‘purpose’; ‘need’

1279



C

ųmàrà

‘rudder’

1280



C

ųmá

‘song’; ‘ululation’

1281



C

übö

‘thumb piano’; ‘sanza’

1282



C

ńgęlëǹgę

‘xylophone’

1283



C

ákwàrà

‘strings, guitar’

1284



C

ékwé

‘slit drum’; ‘gong’

1285



C

ǫbǫ

‘revenge’; ‘grudge’; ‘animosity’

1286



PC

1287



PC

1288

逐 置

1 ímérímé 2 á貼 (á:dá)

1 , 2 ‘plenty, many’

2 撃町 (ǫ:kwö)

1 ‘steer, drive’ 2 ‘pilot’, ‘driver’,

C

àbàdàbà

‘raffia cotton cloth’

C

ábárà

‘fowl meat, poultry’

1 kwǫ

áchï

‘pelvis’

PC

áchï

‘pineapple’

C

áchï

‘rabbit hole’

C

àdįkö

‘migraine’

PC

áfá

‘divination’

C

áfí à孫 (à:sį)

‘gill’

C

ékwéré

‘loom’

C

ágá

‘needle’

C

àgàdá

‘shrimp’

C

ágádágá

‘huge, enormous’

àgàfù

‘burglar’, ‘thief’, ‘bandit’

1290

1278



C

1291

‘spleen’

‘stock’, ‘breed’, ‘kindred’



1292

ümá

àbų



1293

C

C





1294

1277



ǹ員階tà



1295

‘behaviour, conduct’

ǫ感



1296

ümá

ǹ探



1297

C

į柵



1298

1276



#



1299

ǹ員階tà



1300

ǫ感



1301

ǹ探



1302

į柵



C

àgàṃ

‘harpoon’

1303

#

1289

垣 葉 62



C

àgàmà

‘clitoris’

C



‘buy, acquire’

1307



C

ídè

‘ankle rattle’

1308



C

àgènè

‘bamboo mat’

1309



C

àgįrį

‘ball bearing’

1310



C

ágó

‘potion’

1311



PC

àgbà

‘palm kernel’

1312



C

àkürü

‘kidney’

1313



PC

àkpà

‘peanut’

1314



C

ápá

‘dispute’

1315



C

àrįà

‘funnel’

1316



C

àrö

‘fowls comb, crown’



C

àzį

‘meal’; ‘lunch’

1318

1306



‘perch’

1319

1,2‘termite’





PC

ògwùṃágàlà

‘chameleon’

1320

1ágbïsį 2ì談 (ì:dù)

C



C

ùgwù

‘respect’, ‘decent’

1321

C





PC

égédégé

‘shin’

1322

1305



ǹ員階tà



C

òwú

‘thread’, ‘sewing thread’, ‘hair thread’

1323

‘hearth’

ǫ感



C

òwù

‘silence’

1324

ṃkpú

ǹ探



C

ówú

‘evening, sundown’

1325

C

į柵



PC



‘throbbing pain (v.)’

1326

1304



#



C

ákö

‘pneumonia’

1327

ǹ員階tà



C

àkö

‘clever, intelligence’

1328

ǫ感



PC

máḿïrï

‘urine’, ‘piss’

1329

ǹ探



C

ógbì

‘deaf mute’

1330

į柵



PC

ńdü

‘close, nearby, adjacent’

1331

#

1317

垣 葉 63



PC

1ńdò 2è誰 (è:kùlù)

1‘dove’ 2’pigeon’

C



‘sow’, ‘plant’

1335



C

ǹdà

‘chamber, cavity, cell’

1336



C

ǫgbö

‘stage’, ‘platform’

1337



C



‘soak, dampen, wash clothes’

1338



C

ǹdùdù

‘coward’

1339



PC

ǹdú

‘probe, instrument’

1340



PC

èbìrì

‘wave, waves; trouble’

1341



PC

èbèrè

‘granary’

1342



C

ǹdà

‘dew’

1343



PC

ńdölį

‘effort, work, struggle’

1344



C

úgwù

‘foreskin’



C

1ùkpú 2é中 (é:pé)

1‘sacred forest’ 2’grove’

1346

1334



‘liver’

1347

‘waist beads’

ùméjú



PC

úméré

‘manners’, ‘greeting, ‘response’, ‘respect’

1348

ḿgbájí

PC



C

úrù

‘usefulness’, ‘profit’, ‘use’, ‘benefit’

1349

C





C

ùrú

‘mourning’, ‘sorrow’

1350

1333



ǹ員階tà



C

ųhà

‘overnight’, ‘yesternight’, ‘stale’

1351

‘waist band’, ‘belt’

ǫ感



C

ųnà

‘gift’

1352

ájį

ǹ探



PC

ürü

‘flour’

1353

C

į柵



PC

ųtü

‘tax, tribute’

1354

1332



#



PC

ųzü

‘early dawn’

1355

ǹ員階tà



C

üzų

‘smithy, smith’

1356

ǫ感



C

òdìgìrì

‘lagoon’

1357

ǹ探



C

ódó

‘hospitality’

1358

į柵



C

ódó

‘mortar’

1359

#

1345

垣 葉 64



C

ófó

‘leisure’, ‘pleasure’, ‘laid back’

C



‘be, exist’

1363



C

èbù

‘mould, mildew’

1364



C

èbùbè

‘haze’

1365



C

éhèrè

‘body of water’

1366



C

èhè

‘time, age, when’

1367



PC

éhìhì

‘omen’, ‘prognosis’

1368

退

C

éjù

‘snail’

1369



C

ékò

‘lily’

1370



C

ékú

‘ladle’

1371



C

èrò

‘knot’

1372



C

ékwé

‘woods’, ‘forest’



C

èkwòrò

‘envy’, ‘jealousy’

1374

1362



‘raft’

1375

‘guinea fowl’

íbóḿ



PC

ḿbé

‘rafter’

1376

ǫgàzį

C



PC

èrì

‘latex’

1377

PC





C

ètù

‘leech’

1378

1361



ǹ員階tà



C

éyí

‘rabbit’

1379

‘mythology’

ǫ感



C

ǹgįrį

‘ribs’, ‘rib cage’

1380

ífùrù

ǹ探



C

ńgö

‘hook, crook’

1381

PC

į柵



C

ńgùgù

‘parcel’, ‘package’

1382

1360



#



C



‘fine, tax, tribute (v.)’

1383

ǹ員階tà



C



‘secretive, stealthy’

1384

ǫ感



C

ǹkísí

‘silk’

1385

ǹ探



PC

kpé

1386

į柵



PC



‘reduce’

1387

#

1373

垣 葉 65



C

ámì

‘reed’

‘pray’

#

į柵

ǹ探

ǫ感

ǹ員階tà

1388



C

nyá

‘sway’, ‘wobble’,’be unstable’

1389



C



‘limp, hanging, dripping, drooping, lazy’

1390



C



‘hire’

1391



PC



‘appoint’

1392



PC



‘appoint, appointment’

1393



C

dée

honorific for male

1394



C

daa

honorific for female

1395



PC

ógwù

‘innocence’

1396



C

gwé

‘step’, ‘tread’

1397



PC



‘co-ordinate’

1398



C



‘curl’, ‘squeeze’

1399



C



‘bend down’, ‘squat’

1400

垣 葉 66



C

ìjèrí

‘billion’