Ibibio English

[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

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[LHL] noun rice

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LHL] adjective whole, complete

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[HHH] noun bee

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[LLL] noun hut, improvised temporary shelter(in the bush or at the fishing ponds)

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

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[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

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[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

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[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[L] verb, transitive reveal a secret, narrate a story, convey information, inform, relate, (all have derogatory connotation)

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[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

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[HH] verb, transitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

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[HH] noun tooth.

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[LL] noun mother.

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[LHH] noun denial.

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[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

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[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

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[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

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[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

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[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

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

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[HF] noun arrow.

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[LHL] noun electricity

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[HF] noun bitter

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[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

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[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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

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[HH] noun fish (general)

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[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

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

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[HH] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood) (pl. of kpaN)

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

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[H] verb, transitive judge a case

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[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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

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

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[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe awy strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

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

[HHL] noun wing

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[LH] noun neigbour

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[H] adverb here.

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[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

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

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[LHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

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

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[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

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

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[LLL] adverb not even

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[HLLH] noun ant

[LHH] noun mockery

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[LL] adjective small, few

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[LL] noun my mother

[LF] noun my grandmother

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[HH] verb, intransitive become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LH] noun the second-born son

[HF] noun a kind of tree with soft wood, probably Alstonia congensis (Dalziel)

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[HD] phrase What day?

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[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)

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