Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[LL] pronoun you

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[HF] noun slave

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[LH] adjective all, every

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[HHH] noun bee

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[LHH] noun needle

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[L] verb, transitive find and keep

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[HF] noun chin.

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[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

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[HLL] noun tongue.

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[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

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[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

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[LHH] noun copulation.

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[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

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

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[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

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[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

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[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

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[HF] noun cricket

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[HF] noun bitter

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[HH] noun fire.

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

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[LHH] noun crab

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[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

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[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

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[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

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[LLH] transitive verb remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

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[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

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[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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[L] ideophone sound made by a heavy round object such as a coconut or palm fruit cluster when it falls to the ground

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[HH] verb, transitive overlap, cross, heap, pile on top of; arrange, set up, prepare for use

[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] noun exhaustion, fatigue

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[LL] noun scar, welt

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[HF] noun cockroach

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[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

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[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

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[LHL] adjective small

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

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[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

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[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[LLLH] noun business

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[LHH] noun scum

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LL] noun lies

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[HD] adverb also

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LHH] noun a shrine

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

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

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[F] noun tea

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LH] noun canoe

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[HF] noun trouble

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HHHH] noun blood

[LHL] noun rice

[HHH] noun feast

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

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

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)