Ibibio English

[HF] noun a bundle, a bundle of long, stiff objects, a bundle of twenty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

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[LHH] noun settler

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[LF] noun whisper

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[HF] noun slave

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[HH] noun the first-born son

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[HHL] noun wife, female

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[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

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

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[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

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[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

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[LH] verb, intransitive become quiet, calm, lonely (of a place, of wind or water)

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

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[HF] noun a tree with small blue skinned fruits, their green flesh is softened before eating by roasting or by immersing in hot water, the softened flesh is similar to avocado but it is slightly sour, it is customarily accompanied by roasted maize, Bush butter tree

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[HF] noun nest.

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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noun copulation

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[LL] noun eulogy.

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[HF] noun cricket

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[HF] noun stream.

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[LH] noun belly

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[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

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[HH] noun feces

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[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

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[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

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[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

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

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

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

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

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[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

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[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

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

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

[LLL] adverb not even

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[HH] noun face, front, future

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[LL] noun place

[HHH] verb, intransitive become melted

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

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

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[LLHL] noun a kind of edible snail, small with a lightweight shell

[HF] noun second-born daughter

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

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[HH] verb, intransitive become left over, remain

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

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

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

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[HF] noun strength

[HH] adjective new

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[HD] phrase What day?

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

[LH] noun fishhook

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[H] noun child, offspring

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell