Ibibio English

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun cannon

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[LHLL] noun king

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun crocodile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the first wife

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of reed; a sleeping mat woven from reed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun a strong wind

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[HH] noun crying, weeping

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[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun whirlwind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

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[LHH] noun a cripple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

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[LHHH] noun a kind of dance performed in the moonlight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

(Igbo) asaa

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] 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 catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

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[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLF] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HLL] noun shadow

[LLL] noun intestines

[LH] noun my father

[LH] numeral third, three

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

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

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

[LLH] verb, transitive to make a sign of disgust, impatience, disapproval, contempt; smack the lips over a good taste

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LL] noun room

[LH] noun canoe

[LH] noun birth mark

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

[LL] noun second-born daughter

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

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LHH] noun needle

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise