Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

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[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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[LHL] noun python

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[LLL] noun pot

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[HH] noun crying, weeping

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[LH] become broken, break(of its own accord)

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[LH] verb, transitive play

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

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[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

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[HF] noun monkey

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[HLL] noun tongue.

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[HHF] noun spear.

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[HH] noun knee.

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[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

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

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[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

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[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

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[HHH] noun firewood.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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[HH] noun urine.

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[HF] noun pus

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

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[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

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[LHH] noun crab

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[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

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[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

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[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

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[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

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[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[LHL] interjection no

[HD] adverb also, too

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HHH] adjective new

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[L] verb, intransitive become pleasant, enjoyable, sweet

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[HH] verb, intransitive shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[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 foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[HH] verb, intransitive become left over, remain

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[HF] noun strength

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LF] noun your grandmother

[HF] noun a kind of tree with soft wood, probably Alstonia congensis (Dalziel)

[LHH] noun needle

[L] verb, transitive kill

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