Ibibio English

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HHH] verb, transitive beg, beg for; plead with, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive imitate

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[H] verb, intransitive stand

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[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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[H] verb, intransitive come

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a tree with small blue skinned fruits, their green flesh is softened before eating by roasting or by immersing in hot water, the softened flesh is similar to avocado but it is slightly sour, it is customarily accompanied by roasted maize, Bush butter tree

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

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[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

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

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[HHHH ] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive turn, twist, twist around, twist together (poss involves a more complete turn or twist than fiak); iv become twisted (of its own accord); turn (of a wheel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

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[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

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[HH] noun rope.

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[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

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[LHH] noun crab

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[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

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[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive even, even if, unless, not even.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

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[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interj. what

[LLH] noun warm

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

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

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

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

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

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

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

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

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

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

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

[HF] noun strength

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise