Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

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[LLH] noun mens robes

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[HF] noun oil

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

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[HF] noun horn, trumpet

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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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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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

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[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

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[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

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[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

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[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

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[HHF] noun porcupine.

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[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

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[LLL] noun world.

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[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

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[HHL] noun elephant.

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[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

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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, intransitive become lazy.

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

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

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

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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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[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

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[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

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[HHF] noun year

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

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[H] verb, transitive cost

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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)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

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[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

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[LLHH] noun European

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[LH] noun the side of the face from temple to jaw

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[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become accustomed to, familiar with, associated with;

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[HF] noun leaf (gen term esp for leaves which are not eaten)

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[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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

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

[LHL] adjective small

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[LL] conjunction and, with

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[LHHH] adjective secret

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[HHH] noun race, competition

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LHH] noun scum

[HL] noun knuckle

[LH] interrogative what

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[HD] adverb also

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[H] verb, intransitive become stupid, retarded

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

[HF] noun strength

[LL] noun your mother

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[LLH] noun spider web

[LL] noun quarrel

[LL] noun life, destiny, universe, creation

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[L] verb, transitive kill

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

[H] verb, transitive having the urge to sleep

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)