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abuut

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[H.HL] noun shame

adun̄wan̄

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[LHF] noun yawn

afo

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[LL] pronoun you

akpa

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

awo

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

awuen

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[LHH] noun needle

bekke

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

bem

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

bịtbit

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[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

bọkịt

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[HL] noun headtie

diok

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[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

duaha

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

duak

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[LL] verb, transitive boast

dusịmedusime

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[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

dʌkduk

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

ebiọn̄ebiong

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[HHF] noun porcupine.

ekiko

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

ekpo

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[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

ekọn̄ekong

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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.

faak

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[HH] verb, transitive stick into a narrow space, wedge in, put between.

feere

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

fekke

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[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

fịkfik

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

fịpfip

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

fọnfon

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[H] verb, intransitive become good.

idap

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[HH] noun sleep.

idịmidim

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[HF] noun stream.

ikpọnikpon

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

ikịt

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[HH] noun tortoise.

itai

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[LHL] noun coal tar

itak

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[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

ituet

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

iwuot

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

iyak

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[HH] noun fish (general)

kaana

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

kiin

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

ko

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[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

koi

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

kpak

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[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

kpeme

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[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

kpi

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[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

kpuut

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[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

kpịkkekpikke

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[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

kpịmkpim

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[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge bag of flour, it falls with a thud

kpọọkkpook

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[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

kọbọ kobo

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[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

kọọbọkoobo

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

ma

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

mbia

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[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

mbịpmbip

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[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

mfeifịtmfeifit

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

mfem

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[HF] noun cockroach

mkpaatʌkmkpaatuk

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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)

mkpapa uduan̄mkpapa uduang

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

mkpịn̄mkping

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

mmeme

[LLH] noun warm

ndedịbendedibe

[LHHH] adjective secret

ndisa

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

ndisi

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

ndisoon

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

ndo

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

ndu

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

ndubi

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

ndubiọndubio

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

nnama

[LHH] noun calamity

nsu

[LL] noun lies

nsịn̄nsing

[HF] noun the gums

nti

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

n̄kukuangkukua

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

n̄kukumkpọyọriyọngkukumkpoyoriyo

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

n̄kukʌkngkukuk

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

n̄waingwai

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

sieen̄sieeng

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

suagha

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

sʌghọsugho

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

sịttesitte

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

sọọtsoot

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

tere

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

tui

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

tuun̄tuung

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

tịttit

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

tọọn̄ọtoongo

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

ubọkubok

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

udi

[LL] noun grave

uka

[LL] noun your mother

ukpe

[LF] noun a ditch containing water, a large pit, dam

ukpịpukpip

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

usan

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

usʌkusuk

[HF] adverb slow, with care

usʌn̄usung

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

uta

[LH] numeral three

utuat

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

uwam

[LH] noun fishhook

uyakka

[HHL] noun your kinsman

uyo

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

waya

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

wen̄weng

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

yommo

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)

yịren̄yireng

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

yọọnyoon

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness