Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun slave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] adjective old

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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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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a bundle of ten, twenty, fifty, etc..

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[HH] noun knee.

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[HH] noun meat, rat.

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[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

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[LL] noun eulogy.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] number one hundred.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun laughter

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[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

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[HF] noun salt

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[LLL HL] noun door hinge

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[HH] noun fish (general)

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[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, transitive greet, thank, congragulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

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[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

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[HHH] noun fart

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[LHHH] adjective secret

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun eczema

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[HLLH] noun ant

[HF] noun the gums

[HHH] noun postherd

[HH] noun sand

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

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

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[HH] noun the young of an animal

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

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[HL] noun shilling

[H] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[HDH] noun some

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[HH] noun weavil

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

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

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[LLL] noun beauty

[HH] noun childhood

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement