Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

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[HLL] noun sweat

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LLL] noun pot

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

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[HLF] noun sneeze

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[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

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[LLHH] noun a strong wind

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

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

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[LH] noun pawpaw

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[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

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[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

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[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

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[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

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[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

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[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

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[LL] noun court, council meeting.

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[HF] noun good, genuine.

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[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

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[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

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[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

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[HF] noun bitter

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[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

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[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

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[HH] noun a case

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[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

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[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

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[LLL] noun toad

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[HH] noun urine.

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[HH] noun feces

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

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[LH] noun parrot

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[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

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[HHL] noun cooking hearth

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

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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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[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

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[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

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[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

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

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[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

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[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

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

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[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

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[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

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[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

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[LL] noun side, edge

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[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[LH] noun neigbour

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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: Itoro Ituen

[HLH] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

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[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

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[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

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[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[LH] roar (of thunder)

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[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

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

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

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[HHH] adjective new

[HLHH] noun stain

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

[LH] noun fear

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[LHH] noun scum

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[HHLL] noun cornsilk, the tassel at the end of an ear of corn

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

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

[LF] noun cassava fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

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

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[HD] phrase What day?

[LH] noun fishhook

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places

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