Ibibio English

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

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[HF] noun oil

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[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

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

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[LHDH] noun left-handed person

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[LLL] adjective green

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[LHH] noun needle

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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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[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

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[LH] noun onion

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[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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[LH] become broken, break(of its own accord)

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

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[LH] verb, transitive play

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[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

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[L] verb, transitive send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

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

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[HF] noun rain.

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[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

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[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

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[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

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[LH] noun underpants.

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[HF] noun bitter

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[HHH] noun smallpox

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[LL] noun hat, cap

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[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

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[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

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[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

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[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

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

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[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

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[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

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[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

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[H] verb, transitive judge a case

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[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

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[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

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

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[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

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[HD] interjection please

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[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

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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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[HLLHL] noun armpit

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] noun a shoot (esp. referes to the shoot of a a yam stored in the yam marn prior to planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun fart

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LH] numeral third, three

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[LL] adjective small, few

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

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

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[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)

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[LL] noun grave

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[HH] adjective new

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LL] noun your mother

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LLL] numeral four

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[H] verb, transitive suck

[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] noun child, offspring