Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[HH] noun fight

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[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

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[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun monkey

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tomach; a bag-like object esp one containing air; a musical instrument of the accordian type; a kind of thumb piano made of wood of calabash with metal keys; a play in which the thumb piano is used.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

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[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dog.

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[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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[HF] noun stream.

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

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[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pay attention (used with utON, as in a kpaN utON, listen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, intransitive fail to come about, fail to materialize; fail to carry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[LH] verb, intransitive become born

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

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[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective small

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun dream

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

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

[L] verb, transitive sell

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[LL] noun my mother

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[HHF] noun hiccup

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

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

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[HD] noun grandfather

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[HDH] noun some

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun middle

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[HH] noun ear

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

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

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[H] verb, transitive attach, put together, fasten, lock, hang (from a point, or curtains, tie on so that it may hang)