Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LHH] noun settler

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[LD] adjective first

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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

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[LLL] adjective green

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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[LH] verb, transitive imitate

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[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

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[HF] noun pig.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

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[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

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[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun saliva.

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[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

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[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

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[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

[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

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[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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

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[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

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[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

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[HHH] noun nose

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

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH, LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

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[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive lose ones temper and take some action (decide to do something or become stubborn), act in a fit of anger.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

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[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

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

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

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[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

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[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

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[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neigbour

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[HH] noun cheek

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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

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[H.HL] noun sandfly

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[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] noun warm

[LHL] interjection no

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HHH] noun something rotten

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

[LHH] noun mockery

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[LH] noun oyster

[LLHL] noun a kind of edible snail, small with a lightweight shell

[LHH] noun a shrine

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

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

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[H] verb, intransitive become gently, mild (of disposition, weather); adverb: quietly, safely

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hang down; weigh down, lower (as wet clothes lower a line or heavy fruits on a branch)

[L] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[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)

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LH] noun fishing spear

[LLL] noun beauty

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms