Ibibio English

[H.HL] noun shame

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[HH] noun flesh

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[HF] noun root

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[LHHH] noun table

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[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

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[L] verb, transitive find and keep

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[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

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[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[LH] noun husband

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[LL] noun axe.

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[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

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[HH] noun saliva.

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

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[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[LLL] noun wall

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[HF] noun drum.

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[HLHL] noun red

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[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

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

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

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[HH] noun urine.

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

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[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

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[H] verb, transitive agree to, be willing to; run errands opt w utom message, errand, work

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

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

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

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

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[L] verb, transitive pay attention (used with utON, as in a kpaN utON, listen).

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[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

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

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[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

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[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)

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[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle

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[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

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[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[LLHH] noun European

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[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

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

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[HH] noun penis

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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[HLLL] noun armpit

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[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

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[LH] conj. so, so that

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[HHH] adjective new

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

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

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[LH] noun a rattle, musical instrument filled with seeds or pebbles which is shaken; strings of seeds worn around ankles and wrists to make noise when dancing

[LLL] noun intestines

[HH] noun the sour orange

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LHL] noun rice

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose