Ibibio English

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of yam formerly only planted by women, water yam

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[LHLL] noun king

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[HHH] noun A sexually transmitted infection (STI) in men, involves painful swellings on the groin area that may impede walking

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

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[LLL] noun pot

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[HH] noun the sediment which sinks to the bottom of the pot when palm oil is boiled after being extracted from the fruit, dregs

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[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

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[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun headtie

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive imitate

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun saliva.

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[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

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

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[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

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[LH] noun spoon

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[LH] adjective big

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[HH] noun feces

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[HF] noun advice

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

(Igbo) asaa

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pay

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[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

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[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HD] interjection please

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun warm

[LL] pronoun my

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

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

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[HH] noun dream

[LHHH] adjective secret

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

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

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[HHH] noun race, competition

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[HL] noun knuckle

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LL] adjective small, few

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[LLLL] noun rust

[LLH] noun basket

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[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)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[H] verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

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

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[HF] noun strength

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

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

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[HH] noun ear

[LHH] noun needle

[H] verb, transitive suck

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

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

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

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms