Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

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[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun a strong wind

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[H] noun wait, wait for

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun ball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

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noun copulation

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[LH] noun greeting.

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[H] verb, transitive be sated, make overfull (from eating).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tortoise.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive judge a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun grace, favour

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun warm

[LL] conjunction and, with

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[HD] adverb also, too

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LL] conjunction where

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[LLL] noun mould

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

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (to show seriousness and thus make a child comply)

[LL] noun my mother

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HL] noun shirt

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

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

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LLH] noun ability

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LH] noun fishhook

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[HH] noun childhood

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

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