Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[HF] noun dust

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[LLHL] noun cat

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[HF] noun root

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[LHHH] noun table

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[HHF] noun chameleon

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[HHL] noun wife, female

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

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[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

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[LH] noun onion

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[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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[HH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive resemble, appear to, seem to, seem

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

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[L] verb, intransitive call, shout (at), scream (at), cry out

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[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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[LL] verb, transitive dip, steep, soak

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[H] verb, intransitive come

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

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[H] verb, transitive hide

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

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[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

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[HHHL] noun nest.

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[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

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[HHHH ] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive turn, twist, twist around, twist together (poss involves a more complete turn or twist than fiak); iv become twisted (of its own accord); turn (of a wheel).

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[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

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[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

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[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[LL] noun time

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[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

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[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

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[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

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[H] verb, transitive cost

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

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

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[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels (pl. of kpat)

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[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

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[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

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[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[HLLL] noun armpit

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[LHH HL] noun the kernel of the unripe oil palm fruit, the shell is soft and can be broken with the teeth.

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[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

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[HL] interj. what

[HHH] noun button

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LHL] interjection no

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[LH] noun fear

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[LL] noun lies

[HH] noun sand

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[HH] noun the sour orange

[HH] noun the young of an animal

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

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

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

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

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[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 remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[LL] noun room

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[LHH] adjective many, much

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LH] noun your father

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[LHL] numeral five

[LHH] noun needle

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface