Ibibio English

[H.HL] noun shame

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

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

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[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

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

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[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

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

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[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

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

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[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

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[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

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[HHHL] noun sacred place where family heirlooms are kept; archive.

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[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

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[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

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[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

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[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

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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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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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[HHF] noun mouth

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

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

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[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

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[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

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[HH] noun fish (general)

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[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

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[LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

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[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

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[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

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[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

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

[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

[HHL] noun wing

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[LL] noun side, edge

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[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

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[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

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[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

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[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

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[HF] noun sandfly

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[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] pronoun my

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[HLL] noun shadow

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HL] noun knuckle

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[HHH] noun postherd

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LHL] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[HHH] noun a lump (of meat, a clay), a mass; a nest made by ants

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[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

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[LHH] noun a shrine

[HH] noun weeds, grass

[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

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

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

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

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[LH] noun calamity

[HF] noun trouble

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[HH] noun friend

[HHHH] noun a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LL] noun life, destiny, universe, creation

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance