Ibibio English

[HH] noun flesh

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[LHLL] noun cannon

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[HHH] noun water buffalo

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[HHH] noun stew, soup

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[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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[LHL] noun python

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[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

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[LLL] adjective green

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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[L] verb, transitive father a child

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[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

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[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

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[LL] noun flying squirrel.

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[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

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[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

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[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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[HH] noun rope.

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

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[HHL] number one hundred.

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[LH] noun calabash (gen term), Lagenaria vulgaris (Dalziel); a calabash container; any small container to drink from; a standard measure (about a cup) for gari, rice, beans.

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[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

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[HF] noun laughter

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[LHH] noun a cripple

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[LH] noun parrot

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

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

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[HH] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood) (pl. of kpaN)

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

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[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

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[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

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[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

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

[LH] noun the side of the face from temple to jaw

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[LLH] noun banana

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[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

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[LH HD] noun ring

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[HHHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[HLHL] noun armpit

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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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[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

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[LLHDH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H.HL] noun sandfly

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[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[HF] noun sandfly

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[LHL] interjection no

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[HHHH] noun food

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[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

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[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[LLH] adverb perhaps

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

[HF] noun horn of animal

[HL] noun knuckle

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

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

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[HHL] noun man, male

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

[HL] noun sixpence

[LLH] verb, transitive to make a sign of disgust, impatience, disapproval, contempt; smack the lips over a good taste

[F] noun tea

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

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

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LH] noun right (direction)

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LLL] noun universe

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[HH] noun ear

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[H] verb, transitive suck