Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[H.HL] noun shame

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[HF HL] noun pimple

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[HHH] noun comb

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[HH] noun the first-born son

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

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[HHL] noun wife, female

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[LLL] noun pot

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

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[LHLL] noun hiccup

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[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

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[L] verb, transitive find and keep

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[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

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[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

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[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

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[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

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[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

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[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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[LHH] noun copulation.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

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

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[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

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[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

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[HH] verb, intransitive shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).

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[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

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[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

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[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

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[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

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[LHLL] noun electricity

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[LH] noun belly

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[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

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[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

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[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

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[HF] noun pus

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[LL] noun tail

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[HHH] noun smallpox

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[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

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[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

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[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

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[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

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[L] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

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[H] verb, transitive become big

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[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

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[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

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

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[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

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[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

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[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

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[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

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[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

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[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LHL] interjection no

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[HF] noun the gums

[LH] noun my father

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[L] verb, transitive sell

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

[HD] adverb also

[HHF] noun hiccup

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[L] verb, transitive grate

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[LL] numeral second

[HF] noun trouble

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HH] noun rope

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

[H] noun child, offspring