Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[LF] noun whisper

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[LHL] adjective whole, complete

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

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[LLHL] noun a young man

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[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

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[LHH] noun needle

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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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[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

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[HL] noun ball

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[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

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

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

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

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[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

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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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[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

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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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[HF] noun drum.

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[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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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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[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

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[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[LHH] noun a cripple

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[LH] noun debt

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[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

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

(Igbo) asaa

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

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[HHH] noun nose

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[HH] noun fish (general)

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[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

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[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

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[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

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[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

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

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[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

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

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[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

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[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

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[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

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[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

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[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

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[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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[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[LL] verb, intransitive grow (of people, animals, plants, hair) (pl. of kọt [L])

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[HHL] noun wing

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[LLHH] noun European

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[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

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[LLH] noun banana

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[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[HLLL] noun armpit

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[LH LL] noun regret

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[HHH] noun button

[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[LHL] interjection no

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

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

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[LH] noun fear

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[HHH] noun postherd

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

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

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[HHH] noun water

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

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

[LHH] noun a shrine

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

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

[H] verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

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

[LH] noun birth mark

[HH] adjective new

[LHH] noun middle

[LL] noun a game of struggle

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

[LH] noun your father

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[HF] noun noise