Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[HF] noun root

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[HF] noun slave

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[LHL] noun python

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

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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

[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[HHH] verb, transitive beg, beg for; plead with, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[HH] noun hunger

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[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

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[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

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[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

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[HF] noun monkey

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[HHF] noun spear.

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[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

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[LL] noun axe.

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[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

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

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[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

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[LL] noun time

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[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

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[LHH] noun crab

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

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[LHHH] noun a kind of dance performed in the moonlight

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[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

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[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

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[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive pay

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[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive become big

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[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs; unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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)

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

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[HH] noun cheek

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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] adjective small

[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

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[LL] conjunction and, with

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[HF] noun the gums

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[HHLLLL] noun a kind of large forest bird, eagle, it can beat the air with its wings and make a great noise

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

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

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

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[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

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[HL] noun shirt

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

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

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[LLL] numeral four

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[LH] noun fishhook

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

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

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