Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun mosquito

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[LHLL] noun king

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

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[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[L] verb, transitive reveal a secret, narrate a story, convey information, inform, relate, (all have derogatory connotation)

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[LH] noun pawpaw

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[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

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[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

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[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

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[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

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[LHLL] noun rice.

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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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 strange, alien.

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[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

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[LH] noun heart, gut.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

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[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

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[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

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[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

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[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

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[HHL] number one hundred.

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[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

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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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[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

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[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

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[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

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[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).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

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[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

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[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

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[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

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[LLH] noun nail (anat), claw

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[HH] noun thick porridge

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[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

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

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[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

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[HH] noun cheek

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[LH] noun today

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[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun shin

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

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[LL] pronoun my

[HD] adverb also, too

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

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

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

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

[LHH] noun mockery

[HHHH] noun eternity

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[HHF] noun hiccup

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[L] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive to be able to, know how to, master

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive walk in a slow, lazy, sloppy, or stealthy manner

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

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

[L] verb, transitive grate

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[LF] noun your husband

[HF] noun trouble

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

[HH] noun weight

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HF] noun house

[LL] noun your mother

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

[LLL] numeral four

[LL] noun quarrel

[LLL] noun beauty

[HF] noun noise

[LL] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm