Ibibio English

[HF HL] noun pimple

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[LLHL] noun a young man

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

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[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

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[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

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[H] verb, intransitive come

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun world.

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noun copulation

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[LHH] noun copulation.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

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[LHH] noun mockery.

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[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun red

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[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

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[LHL] noun electricity

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

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

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[LL] noun river

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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[LF] noun impotent man

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[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive lose ones temper and take some action (decide to do something or become stubborn), act in a fit of anger.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[HH] noun pity, sympathy

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[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

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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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[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

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[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[H] verb, transitive injure, wound

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[LHH] noun scum

[HF] noun the gums

[HH] noun sand

[LL] conjunction where

[HH] noun the sour orange

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

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

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

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

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LH] noun calamity

[HF] noun strength

[HH] adjective new

[LLH] noun ability

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

[LH] noun cssave fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness