Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun squirrel

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wasp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun person, human being; someone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive hide

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun chin.

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[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

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[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun eulogy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

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

[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cricket

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[HHH] noun whirlwind.

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[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

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[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

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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] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun banana

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[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

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[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

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

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interj. what

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[L] verb, transitive blind

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[LH] noun fear

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[HFHF] noun smallpox

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[HH] verb, intransitive become sweet, delicious, tasty, enjoyable (of food or drink only)

[HH] verb, intransitive shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

[HL] noun shilling

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[LL] noun grave

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

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

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[HD] phrase What day?

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HL] adverb yet, then

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

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

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

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

[H] noun child, offspring

[LL] verb, transitive warm food, reheat afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)