Ibibio English

[HHL] noun man, male

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[LLLL] noun wall

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[HHL] noun forest

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[LHH] noun clan chief

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

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[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

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

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[HL] noun ball

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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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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[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

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[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

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[L] verb, transitive send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

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

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[HH] noun saliva.

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

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[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

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[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

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[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

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

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[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

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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 belly

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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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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[HHH] noun smallpox

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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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[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

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[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

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[L] verb, intransitive become able, know how; tv surpass, excel (used in making com- parisons), triumph over, beat (win)

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[HH] verb, intransitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp. of the ground or of something which should be flat)

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

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

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe awy strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

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

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[LLHH] noun European

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

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

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[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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

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[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a shoot (esp. referes to the shoot of a a yam stored in the yam marn prior to planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

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[HL] interj. what

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[LHL] interjection no

[LL] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms), grope

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[L] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms); grope

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

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

[LL] conjunction where

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

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

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[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

[LH] noun oyster

[HF] noun second-born daughter

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

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hang down; weigh down, lower (as wet clothes lower a line or heavy fruits on a branch)

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HH] noun oppression

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

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

[LHL] noun rice

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[LH] noun fishhook

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[HH] verb, transitive mix; adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

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

[LL] verb, transitive cook a very small quantity of rich afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)