Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

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[HH] noun mosquito

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[LLLL] noun electric fish

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[HLL] noun sweat

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[HF] noun slave

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[LLHL] noun a young man

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[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

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[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

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[HH] noun hunger

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

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[HHH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

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[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

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[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

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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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[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

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[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

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[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

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[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

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[HHHL] noun sacred place where family heirlooms are kept; archive.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

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[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

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[H] verb, transitive be sated, make overfull (from eating).

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[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

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[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[HH] noun sleep.

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[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

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[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

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[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

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[HF] noun laughter

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[LH] noun thief; theft

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[HH] noun a set of five yams

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[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

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

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

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[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

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[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

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[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

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[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

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[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[HH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart.

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[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

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[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[LH] noun neigbour

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[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

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[HF] noun cockroach

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[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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

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[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] interj. what

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LH] noun fear

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[HH] noun descendants

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[HHLLLL] noun a kind of large forest bird, eagle, it can beat the air with its wings and make a great noise

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

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

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[HDH] noun some

[HHH] noun a whistle

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[LHH] noun needle

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

[L] verb, transitive write

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate

[LL] verb, transitive cook a very small quantity of rich afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)