Ibibio English

[HLL] noun sweat

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[LHL] noun priest

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[HH] noun crying, weeping

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[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

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[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

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[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

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[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

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[HL] noun headtie

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[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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[H] verb, intransitive come

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[HF] noun chin.

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[HF] noun a tree with small blue skinned fruits, their green flesh is softened before eating by roasting or by immersing in hot water, the softened flesh is similar to avocado but it is slightly sour, it is customarily accompanied by roasted maize, Bush butter tree

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

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[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

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

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[LL] noun mother.

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[HHL] noun elephant.

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[LL] noun court, council meeting.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

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[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

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[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

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[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

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[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

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[LH] noun underpants.

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[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

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[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

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[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

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[HF] noun stream.

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[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

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[LLL] noun toad

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

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[HF] noun salt

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[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

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[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

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[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

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[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

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[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

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[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

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[H] verb, transitive pay

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[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

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[HH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart.

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

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[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle

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[LL] verb, transitive knock

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LF] noun scar

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[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

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

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[LL] noun foot

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[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

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[LHL] adjective small

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

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[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[L] verb, intransitive become pleasant, enjoyable, sweet

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[LH] noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

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

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HHHH] noun eternity

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

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

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

[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

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

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

[LHH] noun middle

[LLH] noun ability

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LH] noun your father

[HH] noun the sun

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

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

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell