Ibibio English

[HH] noun mosquito

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[LHLL] noun rice

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[LLLL] noun wall

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[HF] noun squirrel

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[LH] noun meeting place

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[LH] noun lizard

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[LHDH] noun left-handed person

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[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

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[HHH] verb, transitive beg, beg for; plead with, ask for

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[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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[LL] ideophone describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

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[L] verb, intransitive call, shout (at), scream (at), cry out

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HH] number twenty.

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[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

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[HHL] noun elephant.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

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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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[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

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[LHL] noun electricity

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[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

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

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[HH] noun a case

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[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

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

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[HF] noun salt

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[HH] noun vagina

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[LLH] verb, transitive remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] 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).

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[L] verb, transitive pay attention (used with utON, as in a kpaN utON, listen).

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[H] verb, transitive pay

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[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

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[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

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[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[LLH] noun banana

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[LH] noun neigbour

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[HH] noun pity, sympathy

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

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[HF] noun cockroach

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[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

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[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

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[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

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[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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[LHHH] noun skull

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[HD] interj. yes

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

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[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

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[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[LLL] noun a kind of small green squash, curcurbita pepo

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

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[HD] adverb also

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

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

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[L] verb, transitive entice, lure, bribe, cajole

[H] verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HH] noun rope

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

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

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

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

[H] noun child, offspring