Ibibio English

[HF] noun oil

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[LHF] noun yawn

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[LF] noun whisper

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[LHL] adjective whole, complete

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[LHLL] noun hiccup

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

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[LHH] noun needle

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

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[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

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[H] verb, intransitive become thickened (e.g. broth thickened by flavor); become dirty (e.g. cloths or water)

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[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

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[HL] noun headtie

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

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[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

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[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

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[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

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[L] verb, transitive send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

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[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

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[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

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[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

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[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

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[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

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[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

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[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

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[HHL] noun cooking hearth

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

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

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[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

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[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[LLH] verb, transitive remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

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[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

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[H] 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.

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[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

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[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

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[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

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[L] verb, transitive vomit

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

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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])

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

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

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[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

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[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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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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[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHDH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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

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

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[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

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[HHHH] noun food

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[LLL] noun a kind of small green squash, curcurbita pepo

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[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

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[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

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LH] noun my father

[LH] noun my father

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LLH] noun basket

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

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hang down; weigh down, lower (as wet clothes lower a line or heavy fruits on a branch)

[HD] noun grandfather

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[HF] noun trouble

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HF] noun house

[HHHH] noun a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[LH] noun fishhook

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much