Ibibio English

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun king

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[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

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[LHL] noun python

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

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

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[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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

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[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

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[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun porcupine.

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[LL] noun the back (anat).

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[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

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[HF] noun nest.

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

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[LHH] noun mockery.

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[HH] noun saliva.

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[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

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[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

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

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[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

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[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

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[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

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[LLL HL] noun door hinge

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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] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

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[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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

[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

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[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

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[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.

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[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

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[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

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[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

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[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

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

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

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[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LF] noun scar

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] interj. what

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

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

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[HH] noun descendants

[HHL] noun a powdered vegetable mixture used in juju sacrifices

[LL] adjective small, few

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

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

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

[HDH] noun some

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LHLL] noun rice

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[HH] noun weight

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LHH] noun middle

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

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

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

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

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

[H] noun child, offspring