Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun rice

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[HHH] noun water buffalo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adjective new

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[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun slave

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[LHL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

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[HHH] noun okra, okro

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[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

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[H] verb, transitive break

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verb, transitive become smooth

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[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

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[LL] noun eulogy.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

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[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

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[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun cooking hearth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH, LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun grace, favour

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[LLHDH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a shoot (esp. referes to the shoot of a a yam stored in the yam marn prior to planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[HH] noun dream

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[HLL] noun shadow

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[LHH] noun calamity

[LHH] noun scum

[HFHF] noun a kind of small mushroom which grows on dead trees, it can be white, red, or brown

[LH] numeral third, three

[LLL] noun mould

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

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

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

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

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

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

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

[LH] noun birth mark

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HH] noun weight

[LF] noun your grandmother

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

[HLL] adverb completely

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[HH] verb, transitive mix, adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)