Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun cat

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[LH] noun meeting place

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

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[HHL] adjective old

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[LHL] noun priest

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[LL] noun the first wife

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[HLF] noun sneeze

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

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[HH] noun hunger

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

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, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

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[HF] noun nest.

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

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[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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[LLL] noun toad

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[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

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[HF] noun laughter

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[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

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[LL] noun hat, cap

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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[H] verb, transitive cost

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[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LH] noun today

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LF] noun scar

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[LHL] noun a shoot (esp. referes to the shoot of a a yam stored in the yam marn prior to planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] adjective small

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun my

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

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

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

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[HLLH] noun ant

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[HF] noun the gums

[LH] numeral third, three

[HH] noun the sour orange

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

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

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[LH] noun oyster

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[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)

[LHH] noun a shrine

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

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

[LF] noun cassava fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LH] noun your father

[LL] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

[LL] verb, transitive steal