Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[HF] noun oil

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[LHLL] noun rice

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[LHF] noun yawn

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[HHL] adjective old

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

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[LHHH] noun table

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[HHH] noun bee

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[L] verb, intransitive become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

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[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

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[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

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[L] verb, transitive father a child

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

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[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

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[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

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[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

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[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

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[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

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[HF] noun pig.

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[HHHL] noun nest.

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[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

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[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

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[LL] noun eulogy.

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[HH] noun saliva.

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[HF] noun good, genuine.

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

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

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[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

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[HF] noun arrow.

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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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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

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[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

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[HF] noun advice

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[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

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

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

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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 become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

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

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

[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[HD] interjection please

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

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[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

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

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[LL] noun foot

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

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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

[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

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[HD] interj. yes

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[L] verb, transitive blind

[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

[HLHH] noun stain

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[LHH] noun scum

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LL] conjunction where

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

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

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

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[L] verb, transitive grate

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[HF] noun strength

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LF] noun cassava fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LHL] noun rice

[H] verb, transitive suck

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[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)

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise