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ōphķ ‘leg’ ōphč ‘back’
lģcś ‘kind of edible honey
bee foundon high rocks’
tŏl lēcū [a scavenger bird]’

The vowels [e] and [a]
 
īvē ‘forest’ ģvą ‘kind of grass’
ō ‘seed’ mąrą ‘be dotty ;
      be crazed’
ō ‘physique’ mą ‘be false’
m ‘peak;summit’ [ōnĭ]mąt ‘mud’
mālā ‘foam; lather’ mą ‘1. be courageous
       2. ’ be bloody -minded ; be unruly

The [back] vowels [o] and [u]
 
ōkō ‘1. story 2.novel 3.prose’  
      ōkū ‘long, flexible,
        smooth feather at
         the rump of a cock’.
ōpfŏ ‘father’   ōpfǔ ‘optimum load for  a man’
ōmŏ ‘brother-in-law’   ōmū ‘group; shoal, pride
        school, gaggle
        swarm, brood, bevy,
        pack, drove, gang,
        fleet, troop, flock,
        crowd, colony
        [not herd]’
ōrō ‘shell’   ōrǔ ‘war; battle’
ō ‘1. pig 2.ginger’ ōvł ‘bear’
ō ‘necklace’   ōtǔ ‘cattle’
ō ‘turds’   ō ‘seat made of wood,two or four-legged’
ōsŏ ‘wild animal’   ō ‘deer’
ģŏ ‘dragonfly’   ģ ‘rumen’
tŏtǔrǔ
 
‘owl’
 
  tǔtǔrǔ
 
‘owl’         (?)
 

2.5.3.
 
Consonants

The voiceless unaspirated bilabial stop [p] and its aspirated congener [ph]
 

ō ‘father’ ōphč ‘back’
lŏpǔ ‘outer boundary’bank’ phǔ ‘to bind’
ō ‘head’ ōphķ ‘leg’
līpē ‘owner; master’ kąphé ‘shoulder’


The voiceless unaspirated bilabial stop [p] and its voiced congener [b]
 

ōpą ‘flower’ ōbŏ ‘hand’
ōpŏ ‘tribe’ ōbǔ ‘turds’
pācū ‘tree-trunk    
  mushroom,    
  stipeless and    
  without parasol’    
ą ‘break [as of pot nņbŏ ‘womb’
  etc.] [intr.]’    
pą ‘grey colour’ kņtŏ ‘palm’


The voiceless alveolar stop and its dental congener : [] and [t]
 

oko ‘few [adj. and  v]’ tōkrǔ ‘height’
oo ‘child’ ōtŏ ‘food; diet’
rto ‘creek; brook’ kņtŏ ‘sides of the body’


The voiceless dental stop and its voiced-congener [t] and [d]
 

ōtŏ ‘food; diet’ ōdŏ    ‘field’
bŏ ‘check’ ōdǔ   ‘lower part of the thigh’
         
tą ‘body part, part of dą ‘1. to hammer
  the neck above the    2. to flail
  adam’s apple’      cereal stalks’
kņtŏ

 

‘sides of the body’

 

cģdņ

 

  ‘fig’

 

 

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