Ibibio English

[LLL] noun God, god

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun dust

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[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

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[HH] noun mosquito

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[HF] noun horn, trumpet

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[HHH] noun stew, soup

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[HHL] noun forest

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[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

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[HH] noun fight

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[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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

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

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

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

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[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

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[HLL] noun tongue.

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[HH] noun knee.

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[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

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[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

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[HH] noun walking stick.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

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[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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[HF] noun bitter

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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

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[HHL] number one hundred.

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[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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[LHH] noun a cripple

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[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

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[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

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[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[HH] 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 (pl. of kpat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

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[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

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[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

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[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

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[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

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[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

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[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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[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

[HH] verb, transitive overlap, cross, heap, pile on top of; arrange, set up, prepare for use

[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

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[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

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[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

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[LHL] noun brain

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

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[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

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[LH LL] noun regret

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LLH] question where?

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[H] verb, transitive injure, wound

[LLLH] noun business

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[HLL] noun shadow

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[HL] noun knuckle

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LL] conjunction where

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LL] verb, intransitive crawl (of a baby, a snake)

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

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[HHF] noun hiccup

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[HHL] noun man, male

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

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

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

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[HD] noun grandfather

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

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

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LL] noun grave

[LHH] noun middle

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

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

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle