Ibibio English

[HF] noun oil

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun electric fish

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[LD] adjective first

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[LHHH] noun table

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[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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[LH] verb, transitive play

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[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun mother.

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[LHH] noun copulation.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun time

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

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[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neigbour

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[HH] noun pity, sympathy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[HHH] noun button

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

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[L] verb, transitive blind

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[LH] noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)

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

[HHH] noun postherd

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[LL] noun place

[LL] verb, intransitive crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LL] noun my mother

[LLLL] noun rust

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[LL] verb, transitive take fire, carry fire

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

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

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

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

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[HF] noun trouble

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

[LH] noun cssave fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LLH] noun spider web

[LLL] noun beauty

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[HL] noun guava

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

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

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)