Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

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[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

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[HHL] noun forest

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[HHH] noun okra, okro

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

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

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

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

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[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

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[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

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[HHHL] noun nest.

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[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

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

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[LH] noun underpants.

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[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

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

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[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

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[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

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[HHL] number one hundred.

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[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

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[HH] noun a set of five yams

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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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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

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

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

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

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

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[H] verb, transitive become big

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

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[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

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[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

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[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

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[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

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[LLH] noun nail (anat), claw

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[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk cautiously as when one sees danger, or because of mud

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[L] verb, transitive swallow

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

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

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[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLL] noun prison, jail, detention

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[HHH HL] noun eyeball

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[HHH] noun button

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

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[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

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

[HL] noun knuckle

[LL] noun lies

[HHF] noun hiccup

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[LH] noun oyster

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[HL] noun sixpence

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LH] noun the second-born son

[HH] noun weavil

[LHH] noun middle

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[HHHH] noun blood

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[LH] numeral three

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[HH] verb, transitive mix, adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[L] verb, transitive kill

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)

[LL] verb, transitive cook a very small quantity of rich afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)