Ibibio English

[LLHL] noun cat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun chief, lord (traditional or religious)

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[HF] noun oil

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[HHL] adjective old

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

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[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[L] verb, transitive reveal a secret, narrate a story, convey information, inform, relate, (all have derogatory connotation)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

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[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

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[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

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

[HHHL] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun red

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[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

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[LLL] noun toad

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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 thief; theft

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun coal tar

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun impotent man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

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[HHL] noun blood

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[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

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[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

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[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

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[LH] verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

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

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

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[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[HHL] noun wing

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[L] verb, transitive swallow

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[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

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

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[LHHH] adjective secret

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

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

[HHH] noun race, competition

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LLL] noun a kind of basket used for catching fish or crabs, small ones are made of palm fronds, large ones of cane

[HH] noun face, front, future

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HHLLLL] noun a kind of large forest bird, eagle, it can beat the air with its wings and make a great noise

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[LLH] noun basket

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

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

[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)

[HF] noun trouble

[HF] noun strength

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HF] noun house

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance