Ibibio English

[HF] noun oil

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LHL] noun basket

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[HHH] noun A sexually transmitted infection (STI) in men, involves painful swellings on the groin area that may impede walking

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[LL] noun the first wife

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

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[LHH] noun needle

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

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[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

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[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[LH] verb, transitive scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

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[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

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[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

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[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

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[HHH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

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[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

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[H] verb, transitive hide

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[HF] noun chin.

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[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

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[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

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

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[HHHL] noun nest.

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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noun copulation

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[LHH] noun mockery.

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[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

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[LL] noun millipede.

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[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

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[LHHH] noun a loan

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

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[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

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[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cricket

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[HF] noun stream.

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[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

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[HH] noun vagina

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

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[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive become big

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[LLH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive knock

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[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[LH] noun grace, favour

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[HLLHL] noun armpit

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

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

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[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

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[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

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[LL] conjunction and, with

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[HLL] noun a children’s running and hiding game played by moonlight

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

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

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[LH] noun oyster

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[HL] noun sixpence

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[LH] noun fishhook

[LL] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[H] verb, transitive suck

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places