Ibibio English

[HLL] noun sweat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[HF] noun slave

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[LHHH] noun table

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[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

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[LHH] noun clan chief

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[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

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[LLL] noun wasp

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

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[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

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

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

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[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

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[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

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[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

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[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

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[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

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[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

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[HLL] noun tongue.

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

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[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

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[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

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[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

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[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

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[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

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[HH] noun a case

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[HHF] noun year

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[LHL] noun coal tar

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[HHH] noun stone, mile

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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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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

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[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

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[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive even, even if, unless, not even.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

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.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pay

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[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

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[H] verb, transitive become big

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[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

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[LH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe awy strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HH] noun thick porridge

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[HD] interjection please

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[L] verb, transitive swallow

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[HF] noun leaf (gen term esp for leaves which are not eaten)

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[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

[HHH] noun something rotten

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[LH] noun my father

[HHLL] noun cornsilk, the tassel at the end of an ear of corn

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

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

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

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

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

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

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun feast

[HH] noun the sun

[LL] noun life, destiny, universe, creation

[LLL] noun beauty

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

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

[LL] verb, transitive cook a very small quantity of rich afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)