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[ LL ]
verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.
[ LH ]
noun fishhook
[ HH ]
verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out
[ LF HL ]
noun skin of the vagina
[ LH ]
verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock
[ H ]
verb, transitive to contribute
[ LL ]
verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)
[ LL ]
verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident
[ LL ]
ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling
[ H ]
verb, intransitive become many, become much
[ HH ]
noun the sun
[ HH ]
verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)
[ HL ]
noun guava
[ HH ]
verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated
[ LL ]
verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)
[ HH ]
verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp
[ H ]
verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).
[ LL ]
noun fufu, anything pounded for fufu, anything cut with the fingers from a mass and swallowed in balls along with afere (soup)
[ LLHL ]
adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)
[ L ]
ideophone sound of wood being cut
[ LLL ]
noun beauty
[ H ]
verb, intransitive laugh
[ LLLH ]
adjective light in weight
[ LLLH ]
noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves
[ LH ]
verb, intransitive come down, descend
[ LH ]
verb, intransitive become hot, warm
[ L ]
verb, transitive sacrifice
[ LH ]
verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform
[ LL ]
noun room
[ LH ]
verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on
[ H ]
verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt
[ HH ]
verb, intransitive weep, cry
[ LH ]
noun loving, likeness
[ HLL ]
adverb completely
[ LL ]
noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)
[ L ]
verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize
[ LH ]
noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)
[ LH ]
verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage
[ HH ]
verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you
[ HL ]
interj. what
[ HHH ]
verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)
[ LLH ]
verb, transitive remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash
[ H ]
verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp
[ HHF ]
noun hiccup
[ LL ]
verb, intransitive become black
[ LH ]
verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.
[ LLH ]
interrogative noun what?
[ LLLL ]
noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used
[ L ]
verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough
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