Ibibio English

[HHH] noun water buffalo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun root

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

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[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

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[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive father a child

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

verb, transitive become smooth

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[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun porcupine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun monkey

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun world.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun cooking hearth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive agree to, be willing to; run errands opt w utom message, errand, work

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[HH] verb, intransitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp. of the ground or of something which should be flat)

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive become resistant, obstinate (of a person, an animal); become difficult (of work, a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

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[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

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[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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

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[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leaf (gen term esp for leaves which are not eaten)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[HLLL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLLLH HLL] noun a pool of water

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] conj. so, so that

[LL] pronoun my

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[LLL] noun a kind of small green squash, curcurbita pepo

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Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[LH] interrogative what

[LL] noun place

[L] verb, transitive sell

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

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

[HHH] noun water

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

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

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

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

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

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

[LHL] noun rice

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[LL] noun life, destiny, universe, creation

[LLL] noun beauty

[HH] verb, transitive deceive