Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

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[H.HL] noun shame

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[HH] noun flesh

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[HF HL] noun pimple

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[LLHF] noun world

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[HF] noun root

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[LHL] adjective whole, complete

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[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[HFHF] noun measles

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

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[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

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[HH] noun hunger

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[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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[HF] noun monkey

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[LHLL] noun rice.

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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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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

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[HF] noun nest.

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[LL] noun tomach; a bag-like object esp one containing air; a musical instrument of the accordian type; a kind of thumb piano made of wood of calabash with metal keys; a play in which the thumb piano is used.

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[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

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[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

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[LL] noun eulogy.

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[LH] noun heart, gut.

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[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

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[HF] noun cricket

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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

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[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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

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[HF] noun pus

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[LLL HL] noun door hinge

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[LL] noun hat, cap

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

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[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

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[HH] 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) (pl. of kpaN)

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[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

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[H] verb, transitive judge a case

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[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

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

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

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[LHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

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[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

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[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

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[HL] interj. what

[LL] pronoun my

[LHL] interjection no

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

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

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[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

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

[HF] noun the gums

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

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

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

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[LLH] verb, transitive to make a sign of disgust, impatience, disapproval, contempt; smack the lips over a good taste

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

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

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

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

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

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[HHH] noun a whistle

[HF] noun house

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LLH] noun ability

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

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[HF] adverb slow, with care

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LH] noun fishhook

[LHH] noun needle

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[HL] adverb yet, then

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness