Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of yam formerly only planted by women, water yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

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[HHL] noun forest

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[LD] adjective first

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[HH] noun the first-born son

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[HHH] noun A sexually transmitted infection (STI) in men, involves painful swellings on the groin area that may impede walking

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[LHL] noun python

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[LL] noun the first wife

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[LH] noun onion

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[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[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)

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[LL] verb, transitive make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

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[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive be sated, make overfull (from eating).

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[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

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[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

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[LH] noun spoon

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[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

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[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

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[LLL HL] noun door hinge

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive become big

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[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[H] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge bag of flour, it falls with a thud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive copulate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs; unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[LHL] noun brain

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[LH HD] noun ring

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[LHH HL] noun the kernel of the unripe oil palm fruit, the shell is soft and can be broken with the teeth.

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[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

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[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

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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[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LLL] noun a kind of small green squash, curcurbita pepo

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Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LHH] noun scum

[LH] noun a rattle, musical instrument filled with seeds or pebbles which is shaken; strings of seeds worn around ankles and wrists to make noise when dancing

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

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

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

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

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[HF] noun mortar

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun house

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[HL] adverb yet, then

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate