Ibibio English

[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[HHL] noun wife, female

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[LHH] noun needle

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[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

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[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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

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[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

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[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

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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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[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

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[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

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[LHLL] noun rice.

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[HH] noun tooth.

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[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

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[LL] noun axe.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

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[HHH] noun dog.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

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

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[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

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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 women, wives

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[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

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[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

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[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

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[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

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[HHL] number one hundred.

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[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

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[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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

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[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

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[L] verb, intransitive become able, know how; tv surpass, excel (used in making com- parisons), triumph over, beat (win)

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp. of the ground or of something which should be flat)

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

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[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

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[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

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[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHL] noun wing

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[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

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[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

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[L] verb, transitive swallow

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[HH] noun penis

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[H] adverb here.

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

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

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

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[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[LL] conjunction and, with

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[LLL] noun a kind of small green squash, curcurbita pepo

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[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

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[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

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[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

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HHH] noun something rotten

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[LL] noun place

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[LF] noun market day

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[HHL] noun man, male

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

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

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

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[LH] noun calamity

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

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[HHHH] noun a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

[LH] noun cssave fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[L] verb, transitive write

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

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

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places

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