Ibibio English

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[HL] noun priest

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[LHL] noun python

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[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

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[LLL] noun pot

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[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

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[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

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

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

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

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[H] verb, intransitive stand

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

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[HHH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

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[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[L] verb, transitive send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

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[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

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[HF] noun nest.

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[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

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

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[LHH] noun mockery.

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[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

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[HF] noun good, genuine.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

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[HHH] noun dog.

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[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

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[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

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

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[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

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[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

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[LH] noun underpants.

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[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

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[HH] noun fire.

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[LLL] noun toad

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

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[HH] noun fish (general)

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[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

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[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive lose ones temper and take some action (decide to do something or become stubborn), act in a fit of anger.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, transitive pay attention (used with utON, as in a kpaN utON, listen).

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

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[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

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[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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

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

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[LL] noun foot

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[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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

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[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

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[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

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[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LHHH] adjective secret

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

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[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

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

[HH] noun face, front, future

[LH] noun my father

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

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

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

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

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

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

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

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HDH] noun some

[LH] noun birth mark

[HF] noun trouble

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[LL] noun your mother

[LF] noun your grandmother

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[LH] noun your father

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

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

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

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