Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

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[LLLL] noun electric fish

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[LLL] noun crocodile

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[HF] noun slave

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[LH] adjective all, every

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[HH] noun fight

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[LHLL] noun hiccup

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

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[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

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

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[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

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[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

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[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

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[HF] noun monkey

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

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[LL] noun mother.

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[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

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

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[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

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[LH] noun strange, alien.

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[LL] noun court, council meeting.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

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[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

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[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

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[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

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[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

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[HF] noun drum.

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[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

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[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

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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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[LH] adjective big

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[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

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[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

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[LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

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[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

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[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

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[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

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[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

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[HHH] noun race

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[HD] interjection please

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[L] verb, transitive choose, select

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[LH HD] noun ring

[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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[HLH] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

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[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

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[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

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[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[HHL] noun a powdered vegetable mixture used in juju sacrifices

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

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

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

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

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

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

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[L] verb, transitive grate

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

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

[LLL] noun room

[LL] noun grave

[HH] adjective new

[LHH] noun right (direction)

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

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm