Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

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[HH] noun mosquito

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[LHL] noun rice

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[LLLL] noun wall

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

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[LHL] noun priest

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[HL] noun priest

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[HHH] noun bee

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[LHL] noun python

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[HHL] noun man, male

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

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

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[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

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[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

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[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

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

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[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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 world.

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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

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[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

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[HH] noun meat, rat.

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[LHH] noun mockery.

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[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

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[LHLL] noun electricity

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[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

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[LLL] noun toad

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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[H] verb, transitive agree to, be willing to; run errands opt w utom message, errand, work

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLH] verb, transitive remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

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[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

[LLH] noun banana

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[LH] noun neigbour

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[LL] noun scar, welt

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[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

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[LLLLH HLL] noun a pool of water

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

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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

[LLL] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[HH] noun face, front, future

[LL] noun lies

[HH] noun sand

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[LH] noun oyster

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

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

[L] verb, intransitive be small

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

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[HH] noun weavil

[LLL] noun universe

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LHL] numeral five

[LHH] noun needle

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)