Ibibio English

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun water buffalo

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[HF] noun slave

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[LHHH] noun table

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[LH] noun fence

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[LHL] noun python

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive fail to show appreciation, criticize what has been done for one

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

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[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

verb, transitive become smooth

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[LH] noun husband

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

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[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun hat, cap

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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, intransitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp. of the ground or of something which should be flat)

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

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun today

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[LH HD] noun ring

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun shin

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[LH] conj. so, so that

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

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

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun business

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

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

[HL] noun knuckle

[HH] noun descendants

[LLL] noun intestines

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LH] noun my father

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[LL] noun place

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[HF] noun second-born daughter

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

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

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hop, jump; jump over; abate, let up (pl. of tamma)

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

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

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

[LL] numeral second

[HDH] noun some

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

[LLL] noun room

[LHLL] noun rice

[HF] noun trouble

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HH] noun weight

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

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

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

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[H] verb, transitive having the urge to sleep