Ibibio English

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun lungs

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shoulder

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[LHL] adjective whole, complete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cloth, clothes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun chameleon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun okra, okro

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective green

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[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun flying squirrel.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun nest.

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cricket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] 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.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive judge a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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[HHH] noun race

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[LH] noun today

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LHH HL] noun the kernel of the unripe oil palm fruit, the shell is soft and can be broken with the teeth.

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[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun skull

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[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LH] roar (of thunder)

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[HD] adverb also, too

[HHHH] noun food

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[LLL] adverb not even

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[LH] numeral third, three

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

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

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

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

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

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

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

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

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

[LHL] numeral five

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm

[H] noun child, offspring