Ibibio English

[HH] noun mosquito

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[HF] noun squirrel

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[LLHL] noun a young man

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[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

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[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

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[LL] noun the first wife

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

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[LHH] noun needle

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[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

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

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[HF] noun a bundle of ten, twenty, fifty, etc..

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[HHF] noun porcupine.

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

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

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

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[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

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[HH] verb, intransitive shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).

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[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

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

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[HHL] number one hundred.

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[HH] noun a case

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[HH] noun urine.

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[LL] noun river

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

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[HH] noun a set of five yams

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[HH] noun fish (general)

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[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

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[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

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[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

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

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[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

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[H] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

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

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

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[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[HH] noun thick porridge

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[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

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[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

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[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

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[HH] noun penis

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[LH] noun grace, favour

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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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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[HLHL] noun armpit

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[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

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[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

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[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

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[LHHH] adjective secret

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

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

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

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[HH] noun sand

[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

[LL] noun place

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

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

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

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

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

[H] verb, transitive eject, hurl, throw, shoot, sting

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LF] noun your husband

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

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LH] numeral three

[HH] noun the sun

[HH] noun childhood

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark