Ibibio English

[LLLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

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[HHH] noun stew, soup

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[LH] noun lizard

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[HHH] noun bee

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[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, intransitive become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

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[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

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[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hunger

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[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

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[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

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[HHF] noun spear.

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[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

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[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

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

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

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

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[HF] noun arrow.

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[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

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[LL] noun foot

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[HH] noun a case

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

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[LL] noun time

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[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

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[LH] noun thief; theft

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

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[HHH] noun stone, mile

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[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

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

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

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[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

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[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

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[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

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[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[LH] noun today

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[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[HLLHL] noun armpit

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[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

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[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun my

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[L] verb, transitive blind

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

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

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

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

[LH] noun fear

[LHH] noun calamity

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[HLL] noun a children’s running and hiding game played by moonlight

[HH] noun sand

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[HHLL] noun cornsilk, the tassel at the end of an ear of corn

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[HHF] noun hiccup

[HH] noun weeds, grass

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[H] pronoun what, who which

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun middle

[LH] noun your father

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)

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

[LL] verb, transitive warm food, reheat afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)