Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HL] noun pimple

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

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[LHL] noun python

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

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[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

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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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun nest.

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[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

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[LHHH] noun a loan

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[HLHL] noun red

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[HH] noun sleep.

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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

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[HHF] noun mouth

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[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

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[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

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 (pl. of kpat)

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[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

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

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[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

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

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive scrape, scrape off, shave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cover, close with a cover or lid; heap up

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[LLH] noun banana

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[HHH] noun race

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[HLHL] noun armpit

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[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[LL] noun lies

[LH] noun my father

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[H] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HH] noun weavil

[LL] noun your mother

[HHHH] noun a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

[LF] noun a ditch containing water, a large pit, dam

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive mix; adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

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

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places