Ibibio English

[HF] noun root

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective whole, complete

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[LHL] noun priest

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[LH] noun fence

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[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

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[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

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[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[HL] noun yam

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

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[L] verb, transitive reveal a secret, narrate a story, convey information, inform, relate, (all have derogatory connotation)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

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[HH] verb, intransitive stand, shine (of sun or moon)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

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[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

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[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

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[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

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

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[LL] noun mother.

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

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[LLL] noun world.

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[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

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[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

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[LL] noun court, council meeting.

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[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

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[LH] noun heart, gut.

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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

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[LLL] noun wall

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[HF] noun drum.

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[HF] noun cricket

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[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

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[LLL] noun toad

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[LH] noun parrot

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[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

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[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

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 gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

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[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

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[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[HH] noun thick porridge

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[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

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[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun brain

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LLH] noun warm

[LHL] interjection no

[HH] noun dream

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

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

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Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[LH] noun a rattle, musical instrument filled with seeds or pebbles which is shaken; strings of seeds worn around ankles and wrists to make noise when dancing

[HH] noun face, front, future

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] noun a women’s society

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[LH] verb, transitive singe

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

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

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

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

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

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[HL] noun shirt

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[L] verb, transitive write

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast