Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

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[HF HL] noun pimple

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[LHL] noun rice

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[HF] noun slave

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[HL] noun priest

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

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[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

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[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

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[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

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[H] verb, intransitive stand

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[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

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[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

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[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

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[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

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[LHH] noun denial.

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[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

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[LHH] noun mockery.

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

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[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[HH] verb, intransitive shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

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[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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[HF] noun stream.

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[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

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[LL] noun foot

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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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

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[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

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[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive pay

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[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, intransitive fail to come about, fail to materialize; fail to carry out

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

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[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

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[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

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

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[H] adverb here.

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

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[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[HHH] noun fart

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[HH] noun dream

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

[HHHH] noun food

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[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

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[LLL] adverb not even

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[LHH] noun calamity

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[LH] noun my father

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HH] noun ashes, dust

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

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

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

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[HHH] noun water

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

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

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HL] noun shirt

[HH] verb, intransitive walk in a slow, lazy, sloppy, or stealthy manner

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[L] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LHL] noun pigeon

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[LH] noun canoe

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

[HHHH] noun a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[HD] phrase What day?

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

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