Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

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[LHF] noun yawn

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[HL] noun priest

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[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

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[HLF] noun sneeze

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[HFHF] noun measles

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[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

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[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

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[HH] number twenty.

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[HF] noun nest.

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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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[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

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[LL] noun eulogy.

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[LH] noun strange, alien.

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[LL] noun court, council meeting.

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[HHH] noun dog.

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

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

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[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

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[HF] noun drum.

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[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

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

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[LH] noun calabash (gen term), Lagenaria vulgaris (Dalziel); a calabash container; any small container to drink from; a standard measure (about a cup) for gari, rice, beans.

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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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[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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

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[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

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[HH] verb, intransitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp. of the ground or of something which should be flat)

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels (pl. of kpat)

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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 die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

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

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[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

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[H] verb, transitive copulate

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[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

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[LL] verb, intransitive grow (of people, animals, plants, hair) (pl. of kọt [L])

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[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

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[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

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[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

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[HH] noun penis

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[HHHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

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[LF] noun scar

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[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] adjective small

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[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

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[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

[HHH] noun fart

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[LLL] noun a kind of small green squash, curcurbita pepo

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

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

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

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[HH] noun a women’s society

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

[HL] noun shirt

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

[F] noun tea

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[H] verb, intransitive become stupid, retarded

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[LLL] noun room

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] adjective new

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[LL] noun your mother

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LHL] noun rice

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LH] noun fishhook

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[L] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[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)