Ibibio English

[LLLL] noun wall

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[LHL] adjective whole, complete

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[LLL] noun wasp

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive resemble, appear to, seem to, seem

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[LH] noun pawpaw

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[HL] noun headtie

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[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

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[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[HLL] noun tongue.

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[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

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[LH] noun greeting.

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[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

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[LL] noun eulogy.

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[LL] noun court, council meeting.

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

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[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

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[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

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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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[HH] noun a case

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

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[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

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[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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

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[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

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[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[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)

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[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

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[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

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[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

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[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

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

[LLL] noun pl people

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[L] verb, transitive swallow

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

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[LLLLH HLL] noun a pool of water

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

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[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun button

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

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

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[HL] noun knuckle

[LHH] noun mockery

[HHHH] noun eternity

[HH] noun face, front, future

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

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

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

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

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[LLH] verb, transitive to make a sign of disgust, impatience, disapproval, contempt; smack the lips over a good taste

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LHH] noun slap

[LL] noun your mother

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)

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