Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

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[HLL] noun sweat

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[HF] noun root

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[LLL] noun crocodile

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[HHL] adjective old

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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[LD] adjective first

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[LHHH] noun table

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[HHF] noun chameleon

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[LHH] noun clan chief

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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[L] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

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[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off(ripe or dead fruit), fall out(of hair)

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[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

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[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[LH] verb, intransitive become quiet, calm, lonely (of a place, of wind or water)

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

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

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[HF] noun monkey

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[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

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[LL] noun rectum, piles (also used as a curse).

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[LH] noun underpants.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

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[HH] noun urine.

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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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves).

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[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

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[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

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[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

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[HD] interjection please

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[HH] verb, intransitive become accustomed to, familiar with, associated with;

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

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[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

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[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[LH] noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)

[HLLH] noun ant

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HH] noun face, front, future

[LLL] noun mould

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

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

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

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

[H] verb, intransitive become gently, mild (of disposition, weather); adverb: quietly, safely

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

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[HDH] noun some

[LL] noun grave

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LL] noun your mother

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

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

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

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell