Ibibio English

[LLHF] noun world

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[HHL] adjective old

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LHH] noun clan chief

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[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[HHH] noun okra, okro

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[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

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[LH] verb, transitive play

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[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

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[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

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[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

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[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

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[HF] noun good, genuine.

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[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

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[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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[HF] noun bitter

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[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

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[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

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[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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[HF] noun advice

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[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

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[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

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[HH] verb, intransitive walk on the balls of the feet, walk on tiptoe

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

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[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

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[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

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[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

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[LH] verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

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[L] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

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[HH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart.

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[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

[HHL] noun wing

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[LHH HL] noun the kernel of the unripe oil palm fruit, the shell is soft and can be broken with the teeth.

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[H.HL] noun sandfly

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[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

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[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[HLHH] noun stain

[HHL] noun a powdered vegetable mixture used in juju sacrifices

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[HHLLLL] noun a kind of large forest bird, eagle, it can beat the air with its wings and make a great noise

[L] verb, transitive sell

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[H] pronoun what, who which

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HL] noun shirt

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[L] verb, transitive entice, lure, bribe, cajole

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LL] noun grave

[HH] noun friend

[HH] adjective new

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LL] noun your mother

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[HHH] noun feast

[HH] noun the sun

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[H] verb, transitive suck

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick