Ibibio English

[H.HL] noun central beam of a house, it runs the length of the roof

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[LHLL] noun cannon

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[LLHF] noun world

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[LHL] noun rice

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[HHH] noun water buffalo

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[HF] noun root

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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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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[HHL] noun wife, female

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[HH] noun the sediment which sinks to the bottom of the pot when palm oil is boiled after being extracted from the fruit, dregs

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[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

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[L] verb, intransitive become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

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[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

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

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[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

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[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

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[LHLL] noun rice.

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

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[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

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

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[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

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[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

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[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

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[LH] noun underpants.

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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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[HH] noun rope.

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

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[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[LHH] noun a cripple

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[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

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[LH] noun debt

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[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

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[LL] noun hat, cap

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[HH] noun vagina

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

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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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[LH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

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[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

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[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive; verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

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[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

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[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

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[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive copulate

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

[LLH] noun banana

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[HH] noun pity, sympathy

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[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

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

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[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

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[HHH HL] noun shin

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[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

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[HL] interj. what

[HHH] noun button

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

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

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[HLHHH] noun disorder

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

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

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

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

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[LL] numeral second

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[L] verb, transitive kill

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[H] verb, transitive having the urge to sleep

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise