Ibibio English

[LLLL] noun electric fish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[LHDH] noun left-handed person

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

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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, transitive father a child

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

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[H] verb, transitive hide

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[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

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

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[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

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[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

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[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

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[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

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[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

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[LL] noun foot

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[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

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[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[HHH] noun smallpox

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[HF] noun advice

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[HHL] noun cooking hearth

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

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[LF] noun impotent man

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[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

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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, intransitive show off, become pompous

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

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[LH] noun the side of the face from temple to jaw

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[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

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[HLLHL] noun armpit

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[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[H.HL] noun sandfly

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[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

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[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

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[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] conjunction and, with

[L] verb, transitive blind

[HD] adverb also, too

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[LH] interrogative what

[HF] noun the gums

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[LL] noun place

[L] verb, transitive sell

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

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

[HD] adverb also

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[HH] noun weeds, grass

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

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

[HH] verb, transitive chop

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

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

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[LLL] noun room

[HF] noun strength

[HF] noun mortar

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HLL] adverb completely

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

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

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms