Ibibio English

[HHH] adjective new

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[LHF] noun yawn

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[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

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[LD] adjective first

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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

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HFHF] noun measles

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[LLHH] noun a strong wind

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[HH] noun crying, weeping

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[H] verb, intransitive become thickened (e.g. broth thickened by flavor); become dirty (e.g. cloths or water)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

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[LH] noun pawpaw

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

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[LL] verb, transitive dip, steep, soak

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[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

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[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

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[HF] noun pig.

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[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

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[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

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[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

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[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

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[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

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

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[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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

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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 wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

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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 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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[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

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[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

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[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

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[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

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[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

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[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

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

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

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[LH] noun neigbour

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[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

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[HH] noun cheek

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[H] adverb here.

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[LH HD] noun ring

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

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[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

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

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[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[LHL] adjective without response

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

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

[HLL] noun shadow

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

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

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

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[LH] conj even if, not even if

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

[HL] noun shilling

[F] noun tea

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

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

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LH] noun birth mark

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LL] noun grave

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LHF] noun third-born son

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[HH] adjective new

[LL] noun your mother

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

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HD] phrase What day?

[LH] numeral three

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

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[L] verb, transitive write

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