Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun cannon

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[HF] noun oil

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[HF] noun squirrel

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[LLHL] noun a young man

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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

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

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[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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

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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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[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

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[LH] verb, transitive imitate

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[HH] verb, intransitive stand, shine (of sun or moon)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

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[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

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[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

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[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

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[LL] noun flying squirrel.

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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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[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

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[HHL] noun elephant.

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[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

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[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

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[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

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[LLL] noun wall

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[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

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[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

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[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

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[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

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[HH] noun a set of five yams

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[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

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[HHH] noun stone, mile

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

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[HH] noun vagina

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[HH] noun hip joint

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

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

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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

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

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[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

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[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

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[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

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[HD] interjection please

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[L] verb, transitive swallow

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[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

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[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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[LHL] adjective small

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[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

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[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

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

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[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

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[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[LHHH] adjective secret

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

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

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

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[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

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

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HF] noun the gums

[LL] adjective small, few

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

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

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

[HL] noun shilling

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

[HD] noun grandfather

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

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

[H] verb, transitive eject, hurl, throw, shoot, sting

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HH] noun rope

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[LHL] numeral five

[LH] noun fishhook

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise