Ibibio English

[LLL] noun God, god

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun town, village

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

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[LHH] noun needle

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[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive break

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[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fierce, brave, valiant, dare, become hot, burn (of pepper), become sarp, function work (of medicine, magic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pig.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun spear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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

[HF] noun drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

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[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun parrot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tail

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[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

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)

[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive lose ones temper and take some action (decide to do something or become stubborn), act in a fit of anger.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

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[LH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe awy strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HHL] noun wing

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[LLHH] noun European

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

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[LH] noun today

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[HLLHL] noun armpit

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[HL] interj. what

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adjective new

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[HHH] noun postherd

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LLL] noun mould

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

[LH] verb, transitive singe

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

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

[HD] adverb also

[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

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

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

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

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

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[HH] noun rope

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[LL] noun your mother

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

[HH] noun liability, burden

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[LHL] numeral five

[LH] noun fishhook

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

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

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