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A mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Note 250 — Chapter IX

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To (water, especially the ocean, a pool, or a stream), ji (upon), ’khosu, for Akhosu by Synalepha (a king). “Gau,” I have already explained. Amma (tree, or other leaf), sin (water, the compound word leaf-water meaning “medicine”), and blu-to (he who makes). Amma-bluto, or Amma-sin-blu-to, is the proper name for a doctor or surgeon; Amma-sin-kpele is the title of an officer, in whose charge is placed the King’s medicine.

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