Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

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[HF] noun dust

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[HH] noun mosquito

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[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

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[HHH] adjective new

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[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

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[LHH] noun clan chief

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[LLL] noun wasp

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[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off(ripe or dead fruit), fall out(of hair)

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

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[LH] become broken, break(of its own accord)

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

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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

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[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

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[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

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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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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

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[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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[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

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[LL] noun axe.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

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[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

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[HH] noun sleep.

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[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

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[HH] noun vagina

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[LF] noun impotent man

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[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

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

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

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

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[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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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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[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

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

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[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

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[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

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[L] verb, transitive vomit

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[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

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[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

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[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

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

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

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[LH] noun today

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[HLLHL] noun armpit

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

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[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

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[LLH] noun warm

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

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[LH] roar (of thunder)

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[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

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

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

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

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LHH] noun mockery

[LH] noun a rattle, musical instrument filled with seeds or pebbles which is shaken; strings of seeds worn around ankles and wrists to make noise when dancing

[LL] noun lies

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LL] conjunction where

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[L] verb, intransitive shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth flapping in the wind; tremble, move about)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sweet, delicious, tasty, enjoyable (of food or drink only)

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[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

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

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

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

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

[H] verb, intransitive become stupid, retarded

[LL] numeral second

[LLL] noun room

[HH] adjective new

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LHH] noun slap

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

[LLL] numeral four

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[LH] noun fishhook

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much