Ibibio English

[HHH] noun comb

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun whisper

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[LL] pronoun you

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[LH] noun fence

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[HH] noun fight

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[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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[LLL] noun pot

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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[HHH] noun okra, okro

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[LH] noun onion

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[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

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[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

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

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive stick into a narrow space, wedge in, put between.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun red

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[LHLL] noun electricity

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[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

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

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[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[LHH] noun a cripple

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[LH] noun thief; theft

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

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[HHL] noun blood

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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, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[LLH] verb, transitive remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[H] verb, transitive cost

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive eat in tiny bits, nibble at, tear into bits, pick at (a sore).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

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[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

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[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

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[LH] conj. so, so that

[LH] roar (of thunder)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[LHHH] adjective secret

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

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

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

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[LLL] noun intestines

[LL] noun lies

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[L] verb, intransitive shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth flapping in the wind; tremble, move about)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[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

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[LHH] noun a shrine

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LH] noun calamity

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[HLL] adverb completely

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

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LH] noun fishhook

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[L] verb, transitive write

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

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