Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[HHH] noun shoulder

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[HHH] noun stew, soup

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

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[LLL] noun wasp

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[HLF] noun sneeze

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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

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[LL] ideophone describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

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[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun nest.

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[HHHL] noun sacred place where family heirlooms are kept; archive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

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[LLL] noun wall

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[HLHL] noun red

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[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun mouth

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[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

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[H] verb, transitive die perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive grow (of people, animals, plants, hair) (pl. of kọt [L])

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[LLHH] noun European

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[L] verb, transitive choose, select

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

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

[HHF] noun eczema

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[LH] noun fear

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[HFHF] noun a kind of small mushroom which grows on dead trees, it can be white, red, or brown

[HH] noun face, front, future

[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

[HH] noun the sour orange

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

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

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

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

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

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

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

[F] noun tea

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

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

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

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

[LL] noun your mother

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LL] noun life, destiny, universe, creation

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate