Ibibio English

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun yawn

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[LL] pronoun you

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

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[LHH] noun needle

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

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[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

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

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[HL] noun headtie

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

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[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

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[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

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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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[HHF] noun porcupine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun civet cat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

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[HH] verb, transitive stick into a narrow space, wedge in, put between.

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

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[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

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

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

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[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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[HH] noun sleep.

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[HF] noun stream.

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

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[HH] noun tortoise.

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[LHL] noun coal tar

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[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

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

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

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

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

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[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

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

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[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

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[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

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[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

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[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

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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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[HF] noun cockroach

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[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] noun warm

[LHHH] adjective secret

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[LHH] noun calamity

[LL] noun lies

[HF] noun the gums

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

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[HHH] noun a lump (of meat, a clay), a mass; a nest made by ants

[HH] verb, intransitive talk in an angry, high-piched voice; ideophone: sound of a frightened, wounded dog

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

[LL] noun grave

[LL] noun your mother

[LF] noun a ditch containing water, a large pit, dam

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LH] numeral three

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LH] noun fishhook

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

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

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)

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

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness