Ibibio English

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

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[HHL] noun umbilical cord

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[HDH] noun chief, lord (traditional or religious)

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[HHL] noun man, male

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

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[HHL] adjective old

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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

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[LHLL] noun hiccup

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

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[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

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[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

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[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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[HL] noun headtie

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[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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

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[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

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[LH] verb, intransitive fierce, brave, valiant, dare, become hot, burn (of pepper), become sarp, function work (of medicine, magic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

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[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

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[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun porcupine.

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[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

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[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

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[LLL] noun world.

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[LL] noun court, council meeting.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

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

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[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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[HHF] noun year

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[LL] noun tail

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[LHL] noun coal tar

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[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

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[HHL] noun cooking hearth

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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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[H] verb, transitive agree to, be willing to; run errands opt w utom message, errand, work

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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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[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

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

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

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

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[LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

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[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

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[L] verb, intransitive fail to come about, fail to materialize; fail to carry out

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[L] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

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[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

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[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

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[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

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[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

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

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun centipede

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[HHH] noun hunger

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

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[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

[LH] conj. so, so that

[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

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[LHH] noun mockery

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

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

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[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 fight; struggle; try

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

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

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[LHH] noun middle

[LHL] noun rice

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[HHH] noun feast

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[HH] noun the sun

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness