Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

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[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

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[LL] noun the first wife

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

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

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

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[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

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[LH] verb, transitive play

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[LH] noun pawpaw

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

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[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

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[HH] noun knee.

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[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

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[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

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

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[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

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[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

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[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

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[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

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[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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[HLHL] noun red

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[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

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[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

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

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[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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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)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun thief; theft

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[HHF] noun year

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[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[HHH] noun stone, mile

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[HH] noun vagina

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[L] verb, intransitive become able, know how; tv surpass, excel (used in making com- parisons), triumph over, beat (win)

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[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

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

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[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

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[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

[H] verb, transitive cost

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[H] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

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

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[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

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[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

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[LH] noun neigbour

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[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LL] noun regret

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[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

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[HHH] noun a seat without a back

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[HF] noun sandfly

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[HHH HL] noun shin

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

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[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

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

[HF] noun the gums

[HF] noun the gums

[LH] numeral third, three

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[HHLL] noun cornsilk, the tassel at the end of an ear of corn

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

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

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[HF] noun mortar

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[H] verb, transitive suck

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise