Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[LLLL] noun electric fish

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[LLL] noun crocodile

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

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[LHL] noun basket

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[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

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[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

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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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[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

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[LH] verb, transitive play

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[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

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[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[LL] verb, transitive dip, steep, soak

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

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[LL] noun mother.

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

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[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

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[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

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[HF] noun arrow.

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[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

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[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

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[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

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[LH] noun parrot

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[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

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

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[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[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

[L] verb, transitive vomit

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[LH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

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[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

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[HF] noun cockroach

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LL] pronoun my

[HHH] noun fart

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

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

[LLL] noun a kind of small green squash, curcurbita pepo

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[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LLLL] noun rust

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

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

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

[HH] verb, transitive look at

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

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

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

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LL] noun grave

[HF] noun trouble

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HF] noun strength

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun middle

[LL] noun your mother

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LLL] noun universe

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[LLH] noun spider web

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[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)

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