Ibibio English

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

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[LLLL] noun wall

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

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[LHLL] noun hiccup

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[HLF] noun sneeze

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[H] noun wait, wait for

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

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[LH] verb, intransitive become quiet, calm, lonely (of a place, of wind or water)

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

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[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

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[HHF] noun spear.

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[HHHL] noun nest.

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[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

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

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[HH] noun saliva.

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[H] verb, transitive be sated, make overfull (from eating).

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[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

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[HHHH ] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive turn, twist, twist around, twist together (poss involves a more complete turn or twist than fiak); iv become twisted (of its own accord); turn (of a wheel).

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[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

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[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

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[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

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

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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 body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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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)

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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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[LH] noun parrot

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

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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 rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[H] verb, transitive cost

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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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[H] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves).

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[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

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[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

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[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

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[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LHL] adjective small

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[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

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[LHHH] noun skull

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[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

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[LLL] noun prison, jail, detention

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LHL] interjection no

[LH] roar (of thunder)

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[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[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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[HHF] noun eczema

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

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[HLL] noun shadow

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HLHH] noun stain

[HFHF] noun a kind of small mushroom which grows on dead trees, it can be white, red, or brown

[LH] interrogative what

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

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

[LL] noun my mother

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HHF] noun hiccup

[HHH] noun a lump (of meat, a clay), a mass; a nest made by ants

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

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

[HHL] noun man, male

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[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[H] pronoun what, who which

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

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

[HH] noun weavil

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[LL] noun your mother

[LHL] noun rice

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[HF] noun voice, order, edict