Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[LHLL] noun cannon

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[HF] noun horn, trumpet

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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[LD] adjective first

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[HH] noun the first-born son

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

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[HF] noun a kind of reed; a sleeping mat woven from reed

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[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

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[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive resemble, appear to, seem to, seem

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[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

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[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

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[LL.H] verb, transitive collect, gather, pull down tendrils or other vegetation from a tree or the side of a house; tap on the back to get a persons attention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

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[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

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

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[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

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

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[HHHL] noun sacred place where family heirlooms are kept; archive.

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[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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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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[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

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[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[LLL HL] noun door hinge

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[LHHH] noun a kind of dance performed in the moonlight

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[HH] noun hip joint

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[HHL] noun blood

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

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[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

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[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

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[H] verb, transitive become big

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[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

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[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

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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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LL] verb, transitive knock

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[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

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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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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[LF] noun scar

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

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[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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[HD] interj. yes

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

[LL] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms), grope

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

[HHHH] noun food

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[HLHHH] noun disorder

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[LH] noun fear

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[LHH] noun calamity

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LH] numeral third, three

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LH] noun oyster

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] noun weeds, grass

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LHLL] noun rice

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[LLH] noun spider web

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

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

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir