Ibibio English

[LHL] adjective whole, complete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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

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[LHHH] noun table

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[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

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[HLF] noun sneeze

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

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[LHH] noun needle

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[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

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[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[LL] verb, transitive make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

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[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun flying squirrel.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dog.

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[LHHH] noun a loan

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[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

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[HH] verb, transitive stick into a narrow space, wedge in, put between.

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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

[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

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[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

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[LH] noun underpants.

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

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[HH] noun tortoise.

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

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[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

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[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

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[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

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[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

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[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHHH] noun [Efik] a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive knock

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

[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

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

[HH] noun descendants

[LL] noun lies

[HH] noun a women’s society

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

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

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

[HH] verb, intransitive shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

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

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hang down; weigh down, lower (as wet clothes lower a line or heavy fruits on a branch)

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

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

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[HH] adjective new

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[HF] noun noise

[L] verb, transitive kill

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

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

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

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell