Ibibio English

[HH] noun mosquito

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

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[HHH] noun shoulder

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[HH] noun fight

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

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[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

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[H] noun wait, wait for

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[HL] noun yam

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[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[LH] verb, transitive play

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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

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[LL] verb, transitive make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

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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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[LHLL] noun rice.

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[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

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[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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[LLL] noun world.

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[HH] noun meat, rat.

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[LL] noun rectum, piles (also used as a curse).

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[LH] noun strange, alien.

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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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[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

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[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

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[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

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[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

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

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

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[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

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[HH] verb, intransitive walk on the balls of the feet, walk on tiptoe

[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

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[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

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[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

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[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[L] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

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

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

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[L] ideophone sound made by a heavy round object such as a coconut or palm fruit cluster when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

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[LL] verb, intransitive grow (of people, animals, plants, hair) (pl. of kọt [L])

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[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

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[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

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[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

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

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[HLH] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

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[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

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[HHH HL] noun shin

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[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] interj. what

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[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)

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[HHH] noun something rotten

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LH] noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)

[HLLH] noun ant

[LL] noun lies

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

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

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

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

[LHH] noun clan chief

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

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

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

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

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[LLH] noun ability

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LLL] noun universe

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[LH] noun your father

[LHL] numeral five

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[HL] adverb yet, then

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

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