Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun God, god

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[HHL HF] noun a tattler

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[LLLL] noun wall

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[LH] noun fence

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[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

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[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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

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[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

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

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[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)

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[HF] noun a bundle of ten, twenty, fifty, etc..

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[HF] noun a tree with small blue skinned fruits, their green flesh is softened before eating by roasting or by immersing in hot water, the softened flesh is similar to avocado but it is slightly sour, it is customarily accompanied by roasted maize, Bush butter tree

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[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

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

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[LL] noun millipede.

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

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[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

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

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[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

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[HH] noun sleep.

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[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

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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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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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

(Igbo) asaa

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

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

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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 sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

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[LLH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive vomit

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[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

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

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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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[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

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[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

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[LH] noun today

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

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[LHL] adjective small

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[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

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[H.HL] noun sandfly

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

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[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

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[LL] pronoun my

[LL] conjunction and, with

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

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive injure, wound

[HH] noun dream

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LHH] noun calamity

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[L] verb, transitive sell

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HL] noun shirt

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

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

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

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

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LH] noun fishhook

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

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