Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

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[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[HHH] noun bee

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[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

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

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

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

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[H] verb, transitive hide

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

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[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

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[LHH] noun copulation.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

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[LL] noun axe.

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[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

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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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[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

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

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[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

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

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

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[H] verb, transitive agree to, be willing to; run errands opt w utom message, errand, work

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

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[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

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[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

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[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

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[LH] verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

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[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

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

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[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

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

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[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

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

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

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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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[HLHL] noun armpit

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

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[LH LL] noun regret

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[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

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[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[L] verb, transitive blind

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[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

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HH] noun face, front, future

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LL] verb, intransitive crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[LF] noun market day

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[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

[HL] noun shilling

[HH] verb, intransitive walk in a slow, lazy, sloppy, or stealthy manner

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hang down; weigh down, lower (as wet clothes lower a line or heavy fruits on a branch)

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

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

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LHLL] noun rice

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LHH] noun middle

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[LLH] noun spider web

[LHH] noun needle

[LLL] noun beauty

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose