Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[HLL] noun sweat

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LLL] noun thunder

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

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[HH] noun the first-born son

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[LH] noun lizard

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LHL] noun priest

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[LHL] noun python

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[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[LL] ideophone describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

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[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

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[LH] verb, transitive scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

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[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

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[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

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[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

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[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

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[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

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[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

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[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

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[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

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[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

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noun copulation

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

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[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

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[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

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[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

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[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

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[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

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[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

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[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

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[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

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[HF] noun drum.

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

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[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

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[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HH] noun tortoise.

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[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

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[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

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[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

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[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

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[HH] noun hip joint

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

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[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

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[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

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[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

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[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

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[L] verb, transitive vomit

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[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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[HD] interjection please

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[L] verb, transitive swallow

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LHH HL] noun the kernel of the unripe oil palm fruit, the shell is soft and can be broken with the teeth.

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[H] verb, transitive injure, wound

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

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

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HH] noun sand

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[LHL] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[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)

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[HH] verb, transitive look at

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, intransitive increase

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

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

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

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

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