Ibibio English

[LLHL] noun cat

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[HDH] noun chief, lord (traditional or religious)

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[HHH] noun comb

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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

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

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

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[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

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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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[HF] noun a tree with small blue skinned fruits, their green flesh is softened before eating by roasting or by immersing in hot water, the softened flesh is similar to avocado but it is slightly sour, it is customarily accompanied by roasted maize, Bush butter tree

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[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

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[HH] noun knee.

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

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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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[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 remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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[HH] noun rope.

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[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

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[LLL] noun toad

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[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

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[HF] noun pus

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

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[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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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 walk on the balls of the feet, walk on tiptoe

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

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[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] 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).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pay

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[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

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[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

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[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[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

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

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[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[HH] noun pity, sympathy

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[HF] noun cockroach

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

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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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[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

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[LF] noun scar

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[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LH] conj. so, so that

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

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

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

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

Example: Photo by Prof. Tolu Odugbemi, Medicinal Plants in Nigeria via via medicinalplantsinnigeria.com

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (to show seriousness and thus make a child comply)

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[LHL] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

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

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[HD] phrase What day?

[LLH] noun spider web

[HH] noun ear

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark