mkpù

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Same spelling, different tones

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• mkpushout; scream; loud cry; shout; call for help; ant-hill
• ti mkpùkpòpraise someone and remind him of what his forefathers did, sometimes to encourage him to undertake new enterprises; chant praise-poetry; in sorrow, praise the dead in mourning, usually by someone close to the deceased; raise the alarm, as death (compare -ti mkpu)