Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun cannon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HL] noun pimple

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[LHLL] noun rice

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[LLL] noun crocodile

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[HHH] noun A sexually transmitted infection (STI) in men, involves painful swellings on the groin area that may impede walking

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[HLF] noun sneeze

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

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[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

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

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[HH] noun hunger

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[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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

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[HF] noun chin.

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[HF] noun a tree with small blue skinned fruits, their green flesh is softened before eating by roasting or by immersing in hot water, the softened flesh is similar to avocado but it is slightly sour, it is customarily accompanied by roasted maize, Bush butter tree

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[LL] noun mother.

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[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

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

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[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

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

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

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[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

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[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

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[LHL] noun electricity

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

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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[LH] noun belly

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

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[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

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[LH] noun thief; theft

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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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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[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

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[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

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[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

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

[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

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[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

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

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[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

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[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

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[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

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[HH] noun periwinkle

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[HH] noun cheek

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[LHH HL] noun the kernel of the unripe oil palm fruit, the shell is soft and can be broken with the teeth.

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[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

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[LL] pronoun my

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[LLL] adverb not even

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[LL] conjunction where

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[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

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

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

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

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

[L] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[LF] noun your husband

[LL] noun grave

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

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

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HF] noun noise

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

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

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)