Ibibio English

[HF HL] noun pimple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun king

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[HHL] noun forest

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[HHL] noun wife, female

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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 needle

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

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[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

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[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

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[HH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive resemble, appear to, seem to, seem

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

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[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

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[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

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[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

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[HH] number twenty.

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[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

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[LH] noun heart, gut.

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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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.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

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[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

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[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

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[HHH] noun firewood.

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[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

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[HHL] number one hundred.

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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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[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

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[LL] noun tail

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

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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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[HF] noun advice

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[HHL] noun blood

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

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[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

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[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs; unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[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)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

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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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[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

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

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[LL] noun foot

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[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

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[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] conjunction and, with

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

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

[LLLH] noun business

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[HH] noun descendants

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[HH] verb, intransitive talk in an angry, high-piched voice; ideophone: sound of a frightened, wounded dog

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[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

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[HL] noun sixpence

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LH] noun birth mark

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[LLH] noun ability

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[HH] noun the sun

[LL] noun quarrel

[LH] noun fishhook

[HH] noun childhood

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much