Ibibio English

[LLL] noun God, god

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[HHL] noun umbilical cord

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[LLHL] noun cat

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[LHLL] noun king

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LHH] noun settler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LHDH] noun left-handed person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun okra, okro

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[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

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[LH] noun onion

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[L] verb, intransitive become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

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[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off(ripe or dead fruit), fall out(of hair)

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

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[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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

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[HH] noun tooth.

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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun calabash (gen term), Lagenaria vulgaris (Dalziel); a calabash container; any small container to drink from; a standard measure (about a cup) for gari, rice, beans.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

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[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

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[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

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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, transitive pierce, stab, sew

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cost

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

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[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[LLHH] noun European

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[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

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[HD] interjection please

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[LHL] noun brain

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[LF] noun scar

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

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[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

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

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

[HH] noun the sour orange

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

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

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

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

[LHH] noun clan chief

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

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

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

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

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

[H] verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[LH] noun the second-born son

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

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[LH] noun fishing spear

[LH] noun your father

[HH] noun the sun

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight