Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun settler

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[HHH] noun stew, soup

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[LLL] noun crocodile

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[HHL] adjective old

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[LHHH] noun table

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[HHH] noun bee

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[LHLL] noun hiccup

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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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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[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

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[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

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[HLL] noun tongue.

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[HF] noun rain.

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[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

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[HHL] noun elephant.

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

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[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

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[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

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[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

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[HH] noun tortoise.

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[HH] noun feces

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[HF] noun laughter

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[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

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[HF] noun salt

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[LH] noun parrot

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

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[HHH] noun stone, mile

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

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[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

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[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

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[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

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[L] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

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[HH] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

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

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHH] noun European

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[HHH] noun race

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[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

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[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

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[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

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[HHH HL] noun shin

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[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive blind

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

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

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[LH] interrogative what

[HHH] noun postherd

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

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

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

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

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[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, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

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

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

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

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[HF] noun mortar

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LHH] noun slap

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[HH] noun the sun

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[HH] noun childhood

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[L] verb, transitive write

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[H] verb, transitive suck

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

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness