Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun priest

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

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[HFHF] noun measles

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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[L] verb, transitive find and keep

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[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

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[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

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[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

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[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

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[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

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

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[H] verb, transitive hide

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[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

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[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

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[LH] noun husband

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[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

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[LL] noun millipede.

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[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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

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

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[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

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[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

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[LHH] noun a cripple

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

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[LL] noun tail

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[HHH] noun stone, mile

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[HHL] noun blood

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[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

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[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

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[L] verb, transitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp of the ground or of something which should be flat)

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[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

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[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

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[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

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[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

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[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

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[H] verb, transitive cover, close with a cover or lid; heap up

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[LH] noun today

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[HHHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HLF] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

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[H.HL] noun sandfly

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[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

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[LHHH] noun skull

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

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

[HHHH] noun food

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[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

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

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

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[HLHH] noun stain

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

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LLL] noun mould

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

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

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

[HH] verb, intransitive walk in a slow, lazy, sloppy, or stealthy manner

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

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

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[LH] noun the second-born son

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

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LL] noun quarrel

[HL] noun guava

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface