Ibibio English

[HH] noun mosquito

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun crocodile

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun python

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[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun a strong wind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive dip, steep, soak

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice.

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun eulogy.

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[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

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[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

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[LL] noun time

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[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[HLLL] noun armpit

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[LF] noun scar

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a seat without a back

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LH] noun fear

[HH] noun descendants

[HHH] noun postherd

[L] verb, intransitive shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth flapping in the wind; tremble, move about)

[LL] verb, intransitive crawl (of a baby, a snake)

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

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LHL] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[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

[HDH] noun some

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[HF] noun house

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[LLL] noun universe

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)

[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[H] noun child, offspring

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop