Ibibio English

[HF] noun root

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[LH] noun meeting place

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LHLL] noun hiccup

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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[L] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

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[LL] verb, transitive remove from the embers what has been roasting there (plural of dappa)

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[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

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[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

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[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

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[LH] noun husband

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[HHL] noun elephant.

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[LH] noun strange, alien.

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[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

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[LHHH] noun a loan

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[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

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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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[HHH] noun firewood.

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[HH] noun feces

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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

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[HH] noun fish (general)

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

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[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

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[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

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

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[HH] verb, transitive eat in tiny bits, nibble at, tear into bits, pick at (a sore).

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

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

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[L] ideophone sound made by a heavy round object such as a coconut or palm fruit cluster when it falls to the ground

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[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[HH] verb, transitive overlap, cross, heap, pile on top of; arrange, set up, prepare for use

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

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[LH] noun neigbour

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[H] adverb here.

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

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[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

[LHHH] noun skull

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[LHL] adjective without response

[LHHH] adjective secret

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

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

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[HHH] noun race, competition

[HHH] adjective new

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[HFHF] noun a kind of small mushroom which grows on dead trees, it can be white, red, or brown

[LHH] noun mockery

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[HH] noun a women’s society

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[LLH] noun basket

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[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 shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[L] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil

[F] noun tea

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

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

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

[LH] noun calamity

[HH] noun rope

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LHH] noun slap

[HH] noun weavil

[HHHH] noun a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[LLL] numeral four

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)