Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[LHL] noun rice

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[LHF] noun yawn

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[HH] noun the first-born son

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[LHH] noun clan chief

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[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

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[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

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[LHDH] noun left-handed person

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[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[HH] noun hunger

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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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[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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[HLL] noun tongue.

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[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

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[LH] noun greeting.

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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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[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

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[LH] noun strange, alien.

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[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

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

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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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[HF] noun drum.

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[HLHL] noun red

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[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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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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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

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[HH] noun urine.

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[LH] noun thief; theft

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

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[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

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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, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

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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.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, intransitive fail to come about, fail to materialize; fail to carry out

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[HH] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

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[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

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[HH] verb, transitive eat in tiny bits, nibble at, tear into bits, pick at (a sore).

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

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[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[L] verb, transitive swallow

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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: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LH] roar (of thunder)

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[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[HFHF] noun a kind of small mushroom which grows on dead trees, it can be white, red, or brown

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LH] noun my father

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[L] verb, intransitive shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth flapping in the wind; tremble, move about)

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

[HL] noun shilling

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

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

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[H] verb, intransitive increase

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

[LHLL] noun rice

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[LF] noun your grandmother

[HH] noun liability, burden

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LHH] noun needle

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness