Ibibio English

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HF] noun squirrel

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[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[LD] adjective first

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[LHL] noun priest

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

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[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

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[HL] noun headtie

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[H] verb, intransitive stand

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

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[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

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[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

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[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tooth.

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noun copulation

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[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

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[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

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[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

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[HF] noun cricket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

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[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

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[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

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[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

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[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

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[HHL] noun cooking hearth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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)

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

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

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[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

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[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

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[HH] noun thick porridge

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun pity, sympathy

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[L] verb, transitive swallow

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

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

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[HLHH] noun stain

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

[LH] interrogative what

[HHLLLL] noun a kind of large forest bird, eagle, it can beat the air with its wings and make a great noise

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LH] verb, transitive squeeze (a fruit, a wet cloth). press (oil from ayop), milk

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[HL] noun shirt

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[HL] noun shilling

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[HD] noun grandfather

[H] verb, intransitive become stupid, retarded

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[HH] noun rope

[HF] noun mortar

[HH] noun friend

[LHH] noun middle

[HLL] adverb completely

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

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LH] noun fishing spear

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[LH] numeral three

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

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[HL] noun guava

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise