Ibibio English

[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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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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[LHL] noun python

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[HH] noun the sediment which sinks to the bottom of the pot when palm oil is boiled after being extracted from the fruit, dregs

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

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

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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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[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

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[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

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[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

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[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

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[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HHF] noun spear.

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[LLL] noun world.

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[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

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[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

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[LH] noun heart, gut.

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[LL] noun millipede.

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[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

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[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

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

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

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[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

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

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[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[HH] noun hip joint

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

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

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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] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

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[LL] verb, transitive stand in a relative position.

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[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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

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

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[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

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[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

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[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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

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[LLL] noun pl people

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[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

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[L] verb, transitive choose, select

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[HLLL] noun armpit

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[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

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

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[LHHH] noun skull

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

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

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[LLLH] noun business

[LHH] noun calamity

[LHH] noun scum

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[LHH] noun clan chief

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

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

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[L] verb, transitive grate

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun middle

[HH] noun oppression

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

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

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[LLL] noun beauty

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[L] verb, transitive write

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[LL] verb, transitive cook a very small quantity of rich afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)

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