Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

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[HHH] adjective new

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[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

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[LH] noun lizard

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[LL] noun the first wife

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[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

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[L] verb, transitive father a child

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[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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[LH] verb, transitive scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun headtie

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[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

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[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

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[LH] noun husband

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[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[HF] noun rain.

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[HH] number twenty.

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[HH] noun knee.

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[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun good, genuine.

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[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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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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[HH] verb, intransitive shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

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[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

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[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

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[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

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[HHH] noun smallpox

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

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[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

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[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[LH] noun neigbour

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[LH HD] noun ring

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[HHH] noun button

[LHL] adjective without response

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[HH] noun descendants

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

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

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

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

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

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

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

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

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[LHH] noun needle

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice