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Vocabulary of the Ho language. 



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tree snake, hartoo, amphisbcena, soonoom beeng, 



great ringed snake, sakom beeng, scorpion, marmar, 



black and white 1 booroo gon- scolopendra, sengel marmar, 



kerate, J dyte, m p- 1 b' d ) ^oola baraban- 



earth adder, noor beeng, ca^chinff^soider" C ^^"^ ^'' ^^^^^ 



coluber constrictor, patayan beeng, 5 f ' ^ btndeeram, 



python, toonil, 



grass snake, loyong beeng, 



water snake, dah doondoo, 



jungle spider, bindeeram, 

 crab, katkom. 



bug, majee, 



cassida beetle, roopa cheedoo, 



male (winged) ant, boordool, 



queen white ant, boonoom enga, 



red tree ant, how, 



procession ant, hab moi, 



little red ant, moi, 



black ant, tonto, 



boatman, gowcheedoo, 



water clock, dahooroo, 



pipula, dah cheedgo, 



white ant, needeer, 



water scorpion, chachahata cheedoo, mantis, banna jye jye, 



jungle hive bee, toomblee, cricket, tete, 



wasp, soorpang, caterpillar, jepender, 



carpenter bee, perom, coccoon, koa, 



great black bee, bah ooroo. 



Insects. 



ichneumon fly, koonkal ho, 

 muskeeto, peechoo or siking, 

 beetle, sadom cheedoo, 

 tumble dung ditto, ee ooroo, 

 Capricorn ditto, hopo, 

 fly, roko, 



tusser moth, loomam cheedoo, 

 butterfly, pampal, 

 louse, tilloo, 

 flea, sikoo, 

 tick, tickee, (?) 

 grasshopper, somsorr. 



earth worm, linda, 

 leech, happad. 



a tree, daroo, 

 branch, koto, 

 leaf, sukam, 



muscle, gendr, 

 fish, hakoo. 



Trees, ^c. 



thorn, janom, 

 flower, bah, 

 fruit, jo, 



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