Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] quantifier other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHDH] noun left-handed person

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

[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

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[LHLL] noun rice.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun hat, cap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wing

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[LLHH] noun European

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[LLH] noun nail (anat), claw

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[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[L] verb, transitive choose, select

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

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[LHL] noun brain

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

[LHL] adjective small

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interj. yes

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

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

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

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

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun business

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[LHH] noun calamity

[LLL] noun intestines

[LH] noun my father

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

[HHLL] noun cornsilk, the tassel at the end of an ear of corn

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (to show seriousness and thus make a child comply)

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hang down; weigh down, lower (as wet clothes lower a line or heavy fruits on a branch)

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LH] noun birth mark

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[HH] adjective new

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LL] noun your mother

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LF] noun cassava fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[LLL] noun universe

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HF] noun noise

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir