Ibibio English

[LLLL] noun wall

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[HLL] noun sweat

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[HHL] adjective old

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[HHH] noun A sexually transmitted infection (STI) in men, involves painful swellings on the groin area that may impede walking

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

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[LHH] noun needle

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[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

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[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

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[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

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[HH] number twenty.

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

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[LL] noun flying squirrel.

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[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

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[HF] noun arrow.

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[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HHF] noun mouth

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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

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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

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[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

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

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

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[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

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[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

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[L] verb, transitive swallow

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[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[L] verb, transitive blind

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

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

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LH] noun fear

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[HLLH] noun ant

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

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HHH] noun postherd

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LL] conjunction where

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[HH] noun the sour orange

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

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

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[LHH] noun middle

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

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

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

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[L] verb, transitive kill

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[H] noun child, offspring

[H] verb, transitive attach, put together, fasten, lock, hang (from a point, or curtains, tie on so that it may hang)