Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

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[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[HHH] noun stew, soup

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[LLL] noun wasp

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[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

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[LHDH] noun left-handed person

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[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

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[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

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[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

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

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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[L] verb, transitive reveal a secret, narrate a story, convey information, inform, relate, (all have derogatory connotation)

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[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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

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[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

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[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

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[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

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[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

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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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[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, intransitive become hot, warm.

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[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

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[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

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[HF] noun cricket

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[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

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[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

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[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

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[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

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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 earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

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[LHL] noun coal tar

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[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

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[HH] noun vagina

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

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[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

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

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[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

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[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

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[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

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

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

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[L] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LLHH] noun European

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[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

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[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

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[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

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[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

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[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[LLH] question where?

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[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

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[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

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[LH] verb, transitive squeeze (a fruit, a wet cloth). press (oil from ayop), milk

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[HH] noun weeds, grass

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[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

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[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hang down; weigh down, lower (as wet clothes lower a line or heavy fruits on a branch)

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

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

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[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

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[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

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[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

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[LH] noun birth mark

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[HF] noun house

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

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[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

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[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

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