Ibibio English

[HH] noun mosquito

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

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[HLL] noun sweat

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive remove from the embers what has been roasting there (plural of dappa)

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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

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[LL] noun the back (anat).

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

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[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

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[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

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[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

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[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

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[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

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[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun mouth

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

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[LH] noun debt

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[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

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

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[L] verb, intransitive become able, know how; tv surpass, excel (used in making com- parisons), triumph over, beat (win)

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[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood) (pl. of kpaN)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

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[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

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[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

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

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[HH] noun periwinkle

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

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[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

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[HHH] noun water

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LHH] noun calamity

[HL] noun knuckle

[HF] noun the gums

[LH] noun my father

[LH] numeral third, three

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

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

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[LHH] noun a shrine

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[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)

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

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

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[L] verb, transitive entice, lure, bribe, cajole

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[H] verb, transitive eject, hurl, throw, shoot, sting

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[L] verb, transitive grate

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HH] verb, intransitive become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] noun weight

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[LLL] numeral four

[LLL] noun universe

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)