Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[LLHF] noun world

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[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[HF] noun root

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun lizard

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[LHL] noun priest

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[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

[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

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[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

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[LH] verb, transitive imitate

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[LL] verb, transitive dip, steep, soak

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[LH] verb, intransitive fierce, brave, valiant, dare, become hot, burn (of pepper), become sarp, function work (of medicine, magic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun rectum, piles (also used as a curse).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[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 blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LHL] noun electricity

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[HF] noun bitter

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[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

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[HF] noun salt

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

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

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[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] transitive verb remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[H] verb, transitive cost

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

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[H] verb, transitive become big

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[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

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[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective small

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[HLHH] noun stain

[HLLH] noun ant

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

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

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[LLL] noun mist, fog

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[HD] adverb also

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

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[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)

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

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

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[LH] noun birth mark

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

[LH] noun your father

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly