Ibibio English

[LLLL] noun wall

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[HF] noun squirrel

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[LD] adjective first

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[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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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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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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

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[HH] noun hunger

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[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

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[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

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[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

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[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

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[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

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[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

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[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

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[LHH] noun copulation.

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[LL] noun eulogy.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

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

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[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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[HH] noun sleep.

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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 witchcraft, witch.

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[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

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[HH] noun a case

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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[LH] noun parrot

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[LH] noun debt

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

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[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

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

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[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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[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

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[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

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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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[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk cautiously as when one sees danger, or because of mud

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[HH] noun periwinkle

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[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

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[HH] noun cheek

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHDH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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[LH LL] noun regret

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[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

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[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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[HHH HL] noun shin

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[LH] conj. so, so that

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[LHH] noun calamity

[HH] noun descendants

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become sweet, delicious, tasty, enjoyable (of food or drink only)

[LL] noun my mother

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

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[HL] noun shirt

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[L] verb, intransitive be small

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

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

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

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

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

[L] verb, transitive grate

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[HH] noun friend

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LH] noun fishing spear

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

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[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

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

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise