Ibibio English

[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun path in the bush

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun crocodile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[HFHF] noun measles

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[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive father a child

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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a bundle of ten, twenty, fifty, etc..

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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[LH] noun belly

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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 someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

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[LL] noun hat, cap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp of the ground or of something which should be flat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive walk on the balls of the feet, walk on tiptoe

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive pay attention (used with utON, as in a kpaN utON, listen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[LLL] noun mould

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[LL] noun my mother

[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

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

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[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)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

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

[HH] noun friend

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HF] noun a kind of tree with soft wood, probably Alstonia congensis (Dalziel)

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LL] noun quarrel

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[HF] noun noise

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HL] noun guava

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)