Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

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[H.HL] noun shame

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[HHH] noun water buffalo

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[LH] adjective all, every

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[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[HH] verb, transitive waste

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[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

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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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[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

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[LH] noun pawpaw

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

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

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[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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[LL] noun mother.

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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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noun copulation

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[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

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[LH] noun greeting.

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

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[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

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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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[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

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[HH] noun fire.

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[LLL] noun toad

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[HF] noun laughter

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[LL] noun time

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[LH] noun debt

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[LL] noun tail

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[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

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[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

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[HHH] noun smallpox

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[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

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

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

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[HH] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood) (pl. of kpaN)

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[HH] 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 (pl. of kpat)

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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

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[LH] verb, transitive; verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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 loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

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[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

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[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

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[LHHH] noun skull

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[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

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[HHH] noun button

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

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[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

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

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[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HHHH] noun eternity

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LLH] noun basket

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[HHF] noun hiccup

[LHH] noun a shrine

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

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

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

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

[H] pronoun what, who which

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

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

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[LH] noun canoe

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

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[HF] noun skill, talent

[LH] noun your father

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LLL] noun beauty

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)