Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[LHL] noun basket

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[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

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[LLL] noun pot

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[LLL] noun wasp

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[LHDH] noun left-handed person

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[L] verb, intransitive become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

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[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

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[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

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[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

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

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[LH] noun husband

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[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

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[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

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[HHL] noun elephant.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

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[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

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[HHH] noun whirlwind.

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[HF] noun pus

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[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

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[LL] noun time

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[LHH] noun a cripple

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[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

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[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

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[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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 raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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

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[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

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[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

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[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[LLLH] noun centipede

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[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[HF] noun leaf (gen term esp for leaves which are not eaten)

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

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[HLLHL] noun armpit

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[LHL] adjective small

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[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

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[LLH] question where?

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[LL] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms), grope

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[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[HH] noun a women’s society

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

[LL] noun place

[L] verb, transitive sell

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[LL] noun my mother

[LLLL] noun rust

[HD] adverb also

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

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

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

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

[L] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

[HH] noun weavil

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HF] noun house

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

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[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast