Ibibio English

[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun yawn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun clan chief

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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[LL] noun the first wife

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

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[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

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[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun greeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tail

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[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[H] verb, transitive cost

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive vomit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wing

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[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[L] verb, transitive blind

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[HHH] adjective new

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

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

[HL] noun knuckle

[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

[LLL] noun a kind of basket used for catching fish or crabs, small ones are made of palm fronds, large ones of cane

[LL] noun place

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (to show seriousness and thus make a child comply)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sweet, delicious, tasty, enjoyable (of food or drink only)

[HHF] noun hiccup

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[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)

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

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

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[LL] numeral second

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[HH] noun weavil

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[LLH] noun ability

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LH] noun your father

[LHH] noun needle

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[LL] verb, transitive cook a very small quantity of rich afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface