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Vocabulary of the Ho language. 



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ratel or Indian badger, ) oosa ban- 



(mustela r alalia^) S na, 

 civet cat, sogot, 

 great red squirrel, hondeng, 

 flying squirrel, ooral, 

 common palm squirrel, too, 

 hare, koolhye, 

 porcupine, jeekee, 

 rat, kattia, 



bandikote rat, gooroo, 

 musk rat, choondee, 

 mouse, chootoo, 

 ichneumon, saramboombooi, 

 pteropus (flying fox) badooree, 

 small bat, chootoo bardooi, 

 manis or pangolin, armoo, 

 saumer deer, saram, 

 neel gye, mooroom, 

 female neel gye, soosam, 

 spotted deer (axis,) poosta. 



four horned deer (chickera), or6, 



muntjac deer, seeleep, 



antelope, badoo, 



memina, yar, 



gower, synl, 



arna, beer biar, 



common buffalo, karra, 



ditto female, bitkil, 



cattle in general, ooree, 



calf, miew, 



two or four toothed bull, damkom, 



young bullock, boysur, 



barren cow, gowee, 



young cow (two or four teeth), peta, 



goat, boda merom, 



gelt goat, byda merom, 



sheep, menree, 



pig, sookree, 



wild boar, beer sookree, 



horse, sadom, 



Birds. 



spotted eagle, doomoor kwid, 

 jungle eagle, booroo kwid, 

 kite, kwid, 



great meadow hawk, pere kwid, 

 chicquera hawk, reechee, 

 peregrine falcon, beesree, 

 ruby-eyed hawk, halloo, 

 pied buzzard, tookoo sambe, 

 jara honey buzzard, kora kwid, 

 kestrel, sookla reechee, 

 great horned owl, doondoo, 

 little owl, pecho or kokor, 

 butcher bird, charree, 

 Indian roller, toian, 

 king crow, danchoo, 



oriole, bocho, 



hoopoo, pootamdoombee, 



cassican crow, hoydn, 



bulbul, cheporr, 



Malabar hornbill, deoree, 



common or gingi ditto, mat tonge, 



blue-throated barbet, gootoor, 



Philippine barbet, koodn, 



great parakeet, meeroo, 



lesser ditto, k6ad, 



common kingfisher, chooing kikir, 



great ditto, liangtong kikir, 



pied ditto, marang kikir, 



chesnut headed ditto, garra kikiV, 



gold-backed woodpecker, ham ere 



