Ibibio English

[HF] noun dust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HL] noun pimple

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[LLLL] noun electric fish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[LHHH] noun table

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[LLL] adjective green

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[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

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[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

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[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

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[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun toad

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

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[H] verb, transitive become big

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

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] verb, transitive eat in tiny bits, nibble at, tear into bits, pick at (a sore).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun armpit

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[LF] noun scar

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[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

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[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective without response

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[LH] noun fear

[L] verb, intransitive become pleasant, enjoyable, sweet

[LHH] noun scum

[LL] noun lies

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

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

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

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[LH] noun oyster

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

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

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

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[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)

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[F] noun tea

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[LHL] noun pigeon

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LL] noun your mother

[HLL] adverb completely

[LLH] noun ability

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

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LH] noun fishhook

[L] verb, transitive kill