Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[LLHL] noun cat

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[LHLL] noun rice

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[HHH] adjective new

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[HHH] noun shoulder

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[LHDH] noun left-handed person

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

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[LHH] noun needle

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[HFHF] noun measles

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[L] verb, transitive find and keep

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[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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

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[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

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[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

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[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

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[LL] noun the back (anat).

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[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

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[LHH] noun denial.

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[LL] noun court, council meeting.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

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[LL] noun millipede.

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[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

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[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

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

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

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[LL] noun foot

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[LLL] noun toad

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[HF] noun salt

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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[LHH] noun crab

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

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

[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

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[HH] 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) (pl. of kpaN)

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

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[HH] verb, transitive scrape, scrape off, shave

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[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

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[H] verb, intransitive cough

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

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

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[HH] noun thick porridge

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[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

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[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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[HF] noun sandfly

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[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

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[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[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

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HHH] noun something rotten

[HLL] noun shadow

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

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

[HF] noun the gums

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[HHH] noun water

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

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

[L] verb, intransitive be small

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

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[L] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[HF] noun trouble

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

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LLL] numeral four

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret