Ibibio English

[LLHL] noun cat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

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[LLHL] noun a young man

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[LHL] noun basket

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[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun python

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the first wife

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun hut, improvised temporary shelter(in the bush or at the fishing ponds)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun okra, okro

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off(ripe or dead fruit), fall out(of hair)

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[H] noun wait, wait for

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[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive hide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun knee.

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[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun civet cat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun court, council meeting.

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[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun hat, cap

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[HHL] noun blood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

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[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LH] conj. so, so that

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[HD] adverb also, too

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[LHH] noun calamity

[LH] noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[HLLH] noun ant

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[LL] noun my mother

[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

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[HH] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[H] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

[H] verb, transitive eject, hurl, throw, shoot, sting

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[HF] noun trouble

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HHH] noun a whistle

[HLL] adverb completely

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast