Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun king

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[HHH] noun comb

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[LF] noun whisper

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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[LHL] noun priest

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[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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[LLL] noun pot

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

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[H] verb, intransitive become thickened (e.g. broth thickened by flavor); become dirty (e.g. cloths or water)

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[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

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[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

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[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

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

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[HH] noun hunger

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[HL] noun ball

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[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

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[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

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[LL] noun the back (anat).

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

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[HH] noun tooth.

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[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

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[HH] noun meat, rat.

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[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

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

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

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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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[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

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[HF] noun cricket

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[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

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[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

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[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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[HF] noun pus

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[LL] noun river

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[LH] noun thief; theft

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

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[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

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[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

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

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

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[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

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[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

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[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

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[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

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[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk cautiously as when one sees danger, or because of mud

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

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[LH] noun today

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[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

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

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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 wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interj. what

[LHL] interjection no

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

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

[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

[LHH] noun calamity

[HH] noun descendants

[HLL] noun a children’s running and hiding game played by moonlight

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

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

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

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[LHF] noun third-born son

[HH] adjective new

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LLH] noun spider web

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)

[H] verb, transitive attach, put together, fasten, lock, hang (from a point, or curtains, tie on so that it may hang)

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