Ibibio English

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

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[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

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[HHH] noun comb

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[LL] pronoun you

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[LH] adjective all, every

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

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[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

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[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

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

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[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

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[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

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[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

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[LH] noun husband

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[HHF] noun porcupine.

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[LHLL] noun rice.

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[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

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[HF] noun nest.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

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[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

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[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

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[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

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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, intransitive become good.

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[LLL] noun wall

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[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

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[LH] noun calabash (gen term), Lagenaria vulgaris (Dalziel); a calabash container; any small container to drink from; a standard measure (about a cup) for gari, rice, beans.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

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[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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[LHH] noun crab

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[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

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[H] verb, transitive cost

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[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

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[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

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[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[L] verb, transitive vomit

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[H] verb, transitive copulate

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

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[HH] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

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[HH] noun thick porridge

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH HLL] noun a pool of water

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

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

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Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[HH] noun the sour orange

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[HH] verb, intransitive walk in a slow, lazy, sloppy, or stealthy manner

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LH] noun calamity

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LHH] noun middle

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[HF] noun noise

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms