Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HLL] noun sweat

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[LLHL] noun a young man

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

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[L] verb, intransitive become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

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

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

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[HH] noun hunger

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[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

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[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

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[LL.H] verb, transitive collect, gather, pull down tendrils or other vegetation from a tree or the side of a house; tap on the back to get a persons attention

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[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[HHHL] noun nest.

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

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[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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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[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

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[HLHL] noun red

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[HF] noun arrow.

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[HH] noun sleep.

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[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[LH] noun debt

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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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[LHHH] noun a kind of dance performed in the moonlight

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[HHH] noun nose

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] 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

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

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[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 loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line), spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp)

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[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

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[HF] noun cockroach

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[LHL] noun brain

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[LH HD] noun ring

[LH HDH] noun ring

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[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[L] verb, transitive blind

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[HD] adverb also, too

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

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

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

[HHH] adjective new

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[LHH] noun calamity

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[LL] adjective small, few

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[LL] verb, intransitive crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HHH] noun a lump (of meat, a clay), a mass; a nest made by ants

[HH] verb, intransitive talk in an angry, high-piched voice; ideophone: sound of a frightened, wounded dog

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

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

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[LH] noun fishhook

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

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

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface