Ibibio English

[HF] noun dust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

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[HHH] noun comb

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[LF] noun whisper

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[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

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[HHL] noun wife, female

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[LLL] adjective green

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[LHH] noun needle

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

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[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

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[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

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[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

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[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

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[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

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[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

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[LH] noun husband

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a tree with small blue skinned fruits, their green flesh is softened before eating by roasting or by immersing in hot water, the softened flesh is similar to avocado but it is slightly sour, it is customarily accompanied by roasted maize, Bush butter tree

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

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[HH] noun saliva.

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

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[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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

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

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[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

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[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

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[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

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[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

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[LLL HL] noun door hinge

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[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

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[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive stand in a relative position.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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

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[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

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[LHL] interjection no

[LH] roar (of thunder)

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[L] verb, transitive blind

[HH] noun dream

[HLL] noun shadow

[L] verb, intransitive become pleasant, enjoyable, sweet

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[HL] noun knuckle

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[LH] interrogative what

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[HHH] verb, intransitive become melted

[L] verb, transitive sell

[L] verb, intransitive shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth flapping in the wind; tremble, move about)

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

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[LLLL] noun rust

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

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

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

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

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

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

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[L] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

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

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

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

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate