Ibibio English

[LLHF] noun world

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[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[LL] pronoun you

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

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[LL] ideophone describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

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[HL] noun ball

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

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[LL.H] verb, transitive collect, gather, pull down tendrils or other vegetation from a tree or the side of a house; tap on the back to get a persons attention

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[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

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[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[HHH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

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[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

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

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[LL] noun the back (anat).

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

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[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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noun copulation

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[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

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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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[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

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[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

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[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

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[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

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[HF] noun laughter

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

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[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

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[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

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[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

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[LLH] verb, transitive remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

[LLH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

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[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

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[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

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[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

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[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

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[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge bag of flour, it falls with a thud

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[HH] verb, transitive eat in tiny bits, nibble at, tear into bits, pick at (a sore).

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[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

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[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

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[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

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[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line), spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp)

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[LL] verb, intransitive grow (of people, animals, plants, hair) (pl. of kọt [L])

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[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

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[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[LH] noun today

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[HHH HL] noun shin

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[LHL] adjective small

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[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] conjunction and, with

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[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

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[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

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[LLL] adverb not even

[HHH] noun something rotten

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

[LHH] noun mockery

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

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (to show seriousness and thus make a child comply)

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[LLLL] noun rust

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[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

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[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

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[LL] verb, intransitive become black

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[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[LHL] noun pigeon

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[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LH] noun canoe

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

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[HF] noun strength, force, power

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[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

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

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[HHHH] noun blood

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[LHL] numeral five

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms

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