Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

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[LLLL] noun wall

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[LLLL] noun electric fish

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[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[LD] adjective first

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[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

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[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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[LLL] adjective green

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[HF] noun a kind of reed; a sleeping mat woven from reed

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[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

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[HH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive resemble, appear to, seem to, seem

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[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

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[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

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[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

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verb, transitive become smooth

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[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

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[LHH] noun copulation.

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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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[LHH] noun mockery.

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[HF] noun good, genuine.

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[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

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[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

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[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

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[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

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[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

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[HH] noun fire.

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[HHL] number one hundred.

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[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

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[HF] noun salt

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[HH] noun a set of five yams

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[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

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[LL] noun tail

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[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

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[HHH] noun smallpox

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[LF] noun impotent man

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[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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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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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

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[LL] verb, transitive stand in a relative position.

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[L] verb, transitive vomit

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[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

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[HH] verb, intransitive cough

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

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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

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[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] noun warm

[LL] pronoun my

[LHL] interjection no

[HD] adverb also, too

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

[LLL] adverb not even

[LHH] noun scum

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

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

[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

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

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[HF] noun mortar

[LHH] noun slap

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[LHH] noun needle

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