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• lụwork; construct; make; defile; desecrate; be faulty, defective; see -la 2.
• B.pluck (leaves from plant); rub oneself with something greasy; be speechless; be unable to speak much, or at all
• boput on; load on; help to raise to head; accuse (wrongly); extensional suffix (break) off (of something large and brittle and capable of being reduced to ashes or powder, e.g. wall, floor)
• doset up; make; place; arrange; still; stable; without moving; extensional suffix against; fast (in, on) (implies continuity; compare -do 1.)
• dulead; accompany; put out (roots, shoots); extensional suffix first; beforehand; precede (compare -godu, and perhaps -du 1.)
• fụsee; find (no vowel suffix); hurt (intr.); blow (as wind); inflate; swell
• kụplant (seeds); knock; strike; ring (a bell); mix
• za(no vowel suffix) answer; reply; swell (of animal body)
• kwacry PI; mourn; perform burial or mourning rites; cough; expel air from the lungs with a sudden sharp sound
• gwatell (no vowel suffix); mix; tell; say to; mix
• nwàself (suffix attached to object and plural pronouns in order to use them as subject and objects at the same time); attempt; try; essay; tempt; prove; spit out