Ibibio English

[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun cannon

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[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun whisper

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun path in the bush

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun person, human being; someone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

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[HH] noun crying, weeping

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[HHH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

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[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the back (anat).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] number twenty.

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[LL] noun mother.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

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

[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

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[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[H] verb, transitive cost

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line), spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[HD] adverb also, too

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

[LLL] adverb not even

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[HH] noun face, front, future

[LLL] noun mould

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[HHLLLL] noun a kind of large forest bird, eagle, it can beat the air with its wings and make a great noise

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[LLLL] noun rust

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

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

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

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

[LL] noun room

[HF] noun trouble

[LF] noun your grandmother

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

[HHHH] noun blood

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LHH] noun needle

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

[HL] adverb yet, then

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms