Ibibio English

[HF] noun a bundle, a bundle of long, stiff objects, a bundle of twenty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

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[LHH] noun settler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun water buffalo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun lungs

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[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[LHH] noun needle

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[LH] noun onion

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[L] verb, transitive find and keep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

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[HL] noun headtie

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive come

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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

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[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

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[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun belly

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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun advice

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] conjunction and, with

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms); grope

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

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[HLHH] noun stain

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

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[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

[LH] interrogative what

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[HHLLLL] noun a kind of large forest bird, eagle, it can beat the air with its wings and make a great noise

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[HH] noun the young of an animal

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

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[HHH] noun water

[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)

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[LHH] noun a shrine

[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)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

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

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

[L] verb, transitive entice, lure, bribe, cajole

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LL] noun grave

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HHHH] noun a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

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

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[LL] verb, transitive warm food, reheat afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)