Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun flesh

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[LLHF] noun world

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

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[HFHF] noun measles

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[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

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[LH] verb, transitive scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

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[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[HLL] noun tongue.

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[LL] noun eulogy.

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[LH] noun strange, alien.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

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[HHH] noun dog.

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[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

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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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[HLHL] noun red

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

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

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[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

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[HF] noun pus

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[LHH] noun a cripple

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

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[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

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[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

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

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

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

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[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

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

[HHH] noun race

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[HLLHL] noun armpit

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[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun prison, jail, detention

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[LH] conj. so, so that

[LL] pronoun my

[LL] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms), grope

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[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[HD] adverb also, too

[HHHH] noun food

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[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[LL] noun my mother

[LLLL] noun rust

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[LH] noun oyster

[HH] verb, intransitive shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

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

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[LF] noun your husband

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LH] noun calamity

[HH] noun friend

[HH] noun weavil

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LLH] noun spider web

[LH] noun fishhook

[HH] noun childhood

[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)

[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)

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness