Ibibio English

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun king

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[LL] pronoun you

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[LD] adjective first

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[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

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[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

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[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

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[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun husband

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

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[LH] noun heart, gut.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

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[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

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

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

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[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

[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

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[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

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

[HF] noun cricket

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[HH] noun rope.

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[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

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[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[LL] noun hat, cap

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[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

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[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

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[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

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[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

[H] verb, transitive pay

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[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

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[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

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[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

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[LL] verb, transitive knock

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[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

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[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

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[HHL] noun wing

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[HHH] noun fart

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

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[HD] adverb also, too

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

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

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

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[HF] noun horn of animal

[HHH] noun postherd

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LLLL] noun rust

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

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

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LHH] noun slap

[HHH] noun a whistle

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HLL] adverb completely

[HF] noun a kind of tree with soft wood, probably Alstonia congensis (Dalziel)

[LH] noun your father

[LH] numeral three

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places