Ibibio English

[HHH] noun water buffalo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adjective new

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LLL] noun crocodile

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[HH] noun fight

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

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[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off(ripe or dead fruit), fall out(of hair)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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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

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[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

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[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun world.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

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[LL] noun millipede.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dog.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

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[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH ] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive turn, twist, twist around, twist together (poss involves a more complete turn or twist than fiak); iv become twisted (of its own accord); turn (of a wheel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun stream.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a kind of dance performed in the moonlight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

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[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive vomit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun pity, sympathy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] adjective small

[LHHH] noun skull

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interj. what

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[LH] interrogative what

[HHL] noun a powdered vegetable mixture used in juju sacrifices

[LLL] noun mould

[HH] noun the sour orange

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[LHH] noun clan chief

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

[H] pronoun what, who which

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

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[HD] noun grandfather

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

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

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

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[LH] numeral three

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LLL] noun beauty

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[HH] verb, transitive mix, adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[H] verb, transitive suck

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance