Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

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[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

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[LLHL] noun cat

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[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

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[HDH] noun chief, lord (traditional or religious)

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[LHL] noun rice

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[LLLL] noun wall

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[HF] noun horn, trumpet

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[LLL] noun crocodile

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[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

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[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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

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[H] verb, intransitive become thickened (e.g. broth thickened by flavor); become dirty (e.g. cloths or water)

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[HHH] verb, transitive beg, beg for; plead with, ask for

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[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

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[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

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[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

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[HH] noun hunger

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[HH] verb, transitive break (a long thin object such as a stick or bone)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

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[LL] noun axe.

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[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

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[HF] noun good, genuine.

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[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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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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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

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

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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.

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart.

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[H] verb, transitive cover, close with a cover or lid; heap up

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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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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[HD] interjection please

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[HH] noun penis

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[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

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[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

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

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

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[HLF] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

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[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

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[LLH] noun warm

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[LHH] noun calamity

[HH] noun descendants

[LLL] noun intestines

[HHHH] noun eternity

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LH] numeral third, three

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[LHH] noun clan chief

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[LL] verb, transitive take fire, carry fire

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

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

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

[LH] noun birth mark

[HF] noun mortar

[LLH] noun ability

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

[LLL] noun universe

[HD] phrase What day?

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HHH] noun feast

[LHH] noun needle

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

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark