Ibibio English

[HH] noun mosquito

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[HHH] noun shoulder

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[HHH] noun bee

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

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[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

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[LL] verb, transitive fail to show appreciation, criticize what has been done for one

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

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[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

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

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[LHLL] noun rice.

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[HF] noun pig.

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

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[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

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[LLL] noun wall

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[LHL] noun electricity

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[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

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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

[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

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

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

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

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[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

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[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

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[LLH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

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[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

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[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

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[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle

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[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

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[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

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[HH] noun penis

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] pronoun my

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

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

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[LLH] noun basket

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LHH] noun a shrine

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[H] verb, intransitive become stupid, retarded

[LHLL] noun rice

[HF] noun house

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)