Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[LHL] noun basket

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[LHL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

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

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[HF] noun monkey

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[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

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[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun sacred place where family heirlooms are kept; archive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

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[LH] noun parrot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a set of five yams

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun door hinge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

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

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[HF] noun horn of animal

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[HHH] noun a lump (of meat, a clay), a mass; a nest made by ants

[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

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[HL] noun sixpence

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

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

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

[HF] noun trouble

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LL] noun your mother

[HLL] adverb completely

[LLL] noun universe

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

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