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• arọa fish much used in idol worship; a hearth; a fire place; three lumps of clay set to support a vessel over a fire; a kind of calabash used as a quiver by hunters
• féasthma; for ever; for a long time; to be willing; like; love; consent; want; wish; desire; woo; approve
• kònot. kò is the simple form of the negative; to gather, to take a large quantity; to plunder; rob; forage; to meet; confront; oppose; rekindle a fire by scraping together half-burnt wood
• pa(primary idea "to make to feel", to suffer; extensively used in composition); to kill; murder; put out of existence; ruin; stay; betray; quench fire, extinguish; bruise; rub, scrub; cut (yam seed, calabashes into halves); break any hard nut; peel the bark of a tree; win a game; hatch; tell fables; cultivate a new grass field; be drunken; kill; off
• aloa district; flame of fire; combustion
• inaexpenditure of money; fire; flogging; punishment by whipping; dimension; stretch
• ináelectricity; fire
• írãthe issuing forth (from a dry spring); issue of smoke from the fire kindled; sprout of a vegetable; a gushing out; stirring up, as sediments of liquid; transgressing (as law, etc.)
• kunto cut an animal into parts after flaying; to set on fire
• òkíflattery; complimentary; title; the act of missing fire (as a gun)
• rànto communicate (as fire); be infectious (as disease); cut, wound (as an instrument); help; aid in business