Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

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[HHH] noun comb

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[HHF] noun chameleon

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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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[HH] noun the sediment which sinks to the bottom of the pot when palm oil is boiled after being extracted from the fruit, dregs

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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

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[HLF] noun sneeze

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[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

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[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

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[L] verb, transitive father a child

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[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

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[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[HF] noun chin.

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[HH] number twenty.

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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

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[HH] noun walking stick.

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[LH] noun strange, alien.

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[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

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[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

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

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[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

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[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

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[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

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[HH] noun rope.

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

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[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

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[LHH] noun a cripple

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

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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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[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

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[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

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[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

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[L] verb, transitive even, even if, unless, not even.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive judge a case

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[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

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

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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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[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

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

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

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[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

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[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun skull

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[HH] noun dream

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HF] noun the gums

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

[LL] noun children, young of animals

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

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

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

[LLLL] noun rust

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

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

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[LHLL] noun rice

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[LHH] noun middle

[HF] noun house

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HF] noun skill, talent

[HHH] noun feast

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

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LHL] numeral five

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)