Ibibio English

[LLHF] noun world

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[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LHL] noun priest

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[LH] noun fence

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[HHL] noun wife, female

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[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

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[LLL] noun wasp

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[HHH] noun okra, okro

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[LLL] adjective green

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[LL] verb, transitive fail to show appreciation, criticize what has been done for one

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[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

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[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

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[HH] verb, transitive break (a long thin object such as a stick or bone)

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

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[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

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[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

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[HHL] noun elephant.

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[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

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[LLL] noun wall

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

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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[LLL] noun toad

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[LH] noun parrot

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[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

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[HH] noun vagina

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[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

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[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

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

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

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[H] verb, transitive cost

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[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

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[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

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[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs; unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[LLH] noun nail (anat), claw

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

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[LH] noun neigbour

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[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

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[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H.HL] noun sandfly

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[HF] noun sandfly

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[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

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[HHH] noun fart

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[LHHH] adjective secret

[LLL] adverb not even

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[HH] noun face, front, future

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[HH] noun weeds, grass

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[L] verb, intransitive be small

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

[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)

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] noun oppression

[LLH] noun ability

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

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[LL] noun fufu, anything pounded for fufu, anything cut with the fingers from a mass and swallowed in balls along with afere (soup)

[LHL] numeral five

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[LL] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

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

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