Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

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[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

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[LHLL] noun cannon

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[HHH] noun water buffalo

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[HHH] adjective new

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[LHHH] noun table

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[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

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[LLL] noun hut, improvised temporary shelter(in the bush or at the fishing ponds)

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[HHH] noun okra, okro

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

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[H] noun wait, wait for

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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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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

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[LL] verb, transitive dip, steep, soak

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[H] verb, intransitive come

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

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[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

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[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun monkey

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[HHF] noun spear.

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[LHH] noun denial.

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[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

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[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

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[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

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[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

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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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[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

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[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

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[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[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 cost

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[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLL] noun pl people

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[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

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[HLLL] noun armpit

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[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

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[HLF] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

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[HHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

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[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

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[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

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[HD] interj. yes

[LLH] noun warm

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[L] verb, transitive blind

[LHHH] adjective secret

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

[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

[LHH] noun calamity

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[HH] noun descendants

[LL] noun lies

[LLL] noun mist, fog

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

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[L] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive to be able to, know how to, master

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[HH] adjective new

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[LHH] noun needle

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[HH] verb, transitive mix, adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

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

[H] verb, transitive suck

[L] verb, transitive kill