Ibibio English

[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LH] noun lizard

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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[LH] noun onion

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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[LH] verb, transitive play

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

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[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

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[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

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[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

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

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

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[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

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[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

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[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

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[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

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[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

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[HHH] noun dog.

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[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

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[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

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[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

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[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

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[HHH] noun firewood.

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[HH] noun fire.

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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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[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

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[HH] noun feces

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[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

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[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[LF] noun impotent man

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

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[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

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[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

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[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

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[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels (pl. of kpat)

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

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[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

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[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

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[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge bag of flour, it falls with a thud

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[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

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[HH] verb, transitive greet, thank, congragulate, express

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk cautiously as when one sees danger, or because of mud

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[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

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[LHL] adjective small

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[HHH] noun a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

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

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[HHH HL] noun shin

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[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

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[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

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[LLL] adverb not even

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

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

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[LL] adjective small, few

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

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

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

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

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[LLL] noun room

[LH] noun birth mark

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[LHL] numeral five

[HH] noun the sun

[LHH] noun needle

[LLL] noun beauty

[HH] noun childhood

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface