Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun chief, lord (traditional or religious)

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[HLHL] noun lungs

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

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

[HH] noun fight

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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive break

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[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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[LL] verb, transitive dip, steep, soak

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun calabash (gen term), Lagenaria vulgaris (Dalziel); a calabash container; any small container to drink from; a standard measure (about a cup) for gari, rice, beans.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun parrot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

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[LL] noun tail

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun cooking hearth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels (pl. of kpat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[L] verb, transitive vomit

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[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wing

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[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun armpit

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

[LF] noun scar

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HLF] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

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

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[HD] adverb also, too

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

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LH] numeral third, three

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

[LL] verb, intransitive crawl (of a baby, a snake)

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

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

[HL] noun sixpence

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[H] verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

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

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

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HH] noun oppression

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

[HH] noun liability, burden

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

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