Ibibio English

[HH] noun flesh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun whisper

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[LHH] noun clan chief

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

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[H] noun wait, wait for

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[HH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive resemble, appear to, seem to, seem

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[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun ball

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[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

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[HH] noun knee.

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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

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

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[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

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[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

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[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

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[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

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[LH] noun thief; theft

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

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

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[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

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[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

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[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

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[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive become resistant, obstinate (of a person, an animal); become difficult (of work, a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neigbour

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms); grope

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[L] verb, transitive blind

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

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

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HH] noun ashes, dust

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become melted

[LH] verb, transitive squeeze (a fruit, a wet cloth). press (oil from ayop), milk

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[LL] noun my mother

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

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

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

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

[HDH] noun some

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[L] verb, transitive write

[L] verb, transitive kill

[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)