Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[LHHH] noun table

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[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[HL] noun yam

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[HH] noun hunger

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[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

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[L] verb, intransitive call, shout (at), scream (at), cry out

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[LL] verb, transitive remove from the embers what has been roasting there (plural of dappa)

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

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[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

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[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

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[LH] noun husband

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[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

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[HH] number twenty.

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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noun copulation

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[LH] noun greeting.

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[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

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[LL] noun millipede.

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[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

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[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

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[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

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[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

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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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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

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[LHL] noun coal tar

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

[LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

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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.

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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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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

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[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

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

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

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[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

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

[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

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

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[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

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[HH] noun pity, sympathy

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

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[HHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

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[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

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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).

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[LHHH] noun skull

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[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

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[LL] pronoun my

[HHH] noun fart

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

[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

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[HH] noun descendants

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[HH] verb, intransitive become sweet, delicious, tasty, enjoyable (of food or drink only)

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

[LLLL] noun rust

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

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

[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)

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[HD] noun grandfather

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

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

[LF] noun your husband

[HH] noun friend

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[LHH] noun middle

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[LHL] numeral five

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

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

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