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2. lō ‘kind of shawl’
  ō ‘kind of pumpkin, not edible, but which is, when mature, used to fashion containers to stash away water etc.’
3. kōphā ‘a dish of rice and green leaves’
  ōphč ‘back [body part]’
4. ģdē ‘long ago’
  dą ‘1. to hammer with repeated strokes
    2. to flail cereal stalks
    3.tobeat  4. to type’

o vs u
 
1. ō ‘female pudendum’
  ō ‘price ; cost’
2. ō ‘politeness’
  ōdǔ ‘lower part of thigh’
3 ōkŏ ‘stalk’
  ōkǔ ‘measure of length, the distance between the tip of thumb and the little finger stretched outwards’
4. ōŋņ ‘orang - outang’
  ōŋł ‘men’

2.4.3.
 

CONSONANTS
 
p   b     t d       k [g]  
ph             h       kh    
pf   bv         ts dz c j      
                  [ch]        
      f v     s z š     h
    m           n       ŋ  
                l          
                r        
    [w]             y        

[Note that the sounds in parentheses are marginal in the system]
 
p vs ph vs b
ō ‘father-in-law’ ō ‘head’
ōphč ‘back’ ōphķ ‘leg’
ō ‘arm’ nņbģ ‘ear’
t vs vs h vs d
ōtŏ ‘diet ; food’
ōŏ ‘child’
ō ‘paddy’
ō ‘politeness’

Note : t and are sometimes found in free variation
 
ōtĕpą  
  ‘grand daughter’
ōĕpą  
ō ‘grand child’
ōĕ  
k vs kh vs g
ōkł ‘squirrel-like animal with three lines running along its body, to kill which is a social  honour’
ōkhł ‘grave’
gūsthō ‘squash’
pf vs ph vs  bv
ōpfǔ ‘mother’s sister’
kņph ‘to blink’
bvģ ‘to hatch[vi]’
pf vs f vs v
ōpfǔ ‘optimum load’ ōpf ‘mother’
ōfǔ ‘lung’ ōf ‘1.grove;thicket  2. plot of land’
ōvł

 

‘1. star 2. planet’

 

 ģv

 

‘be tame’

 

 

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