Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun cannon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[HF] noun horn, trumpet

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[HH] noun the first-born son

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[LH] noun fence

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[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] adjective cold

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[LLL] adjective green

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[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

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[H] verb, intransitive become thickened (e.g. broth thickened by flavor); become dirty (e.g. cloths or water)

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

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[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive call, shout (at), scream (at), cry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

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[HH] noun tooth.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun millipede.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

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

[LHL] noun whistling

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[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

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[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] 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

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, intransitive fail to come about, fail to materialize; fail to carry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

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 remove from a hook, remove what hangs; unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HH] verb, transitive overlap, cross, heap, pile on top of; arrange, set up, prepare for use

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HD] interj. yes

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LHH] noun calamity

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[LH] verb, transitive squeeze (a fruit, a wet cloth). press (oil from ayop), milk

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HH] verb, intransitive shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[H] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[HH] noun oppression

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

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[LH] noun your father

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

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

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)