Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun cannon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HL] noun pimple

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[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun slave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the first-born son

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

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

[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

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[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

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[H] verb, intransitive stand

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

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[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun millipede.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

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[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun red

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[LHLL] noun electricity

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[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HF] noun pus

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[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun cooking hearth

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[HHL] noun blood

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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[L] verb, transitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp of the ground or of something which should be flat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wing

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[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leaf (gen term esp for leaves which are not eaten)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[LL] pronoun my

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun dream

[LLL] adverb not even

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LH] noun oyster

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

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

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[LH] noun calamity

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[LHH] noun middle

[LLL] numeral four

[LLH] noun spider web

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

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

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell