Ibibio English

[HH] noun flesh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun electric fish

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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[LHHH] noun table

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[HL] noun priest

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[LH] noun fence

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[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hunger

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

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[LL] noun axe.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[H] verb, transitive be sated, make overfull (from eating).

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[HH] verb, intransitive shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

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[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

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

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[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

[HH] verb, transitive greet, thank, congragulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[HH] noun pity, sympathy

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[HH] verb, intransitive become accustomed to, familiar with, associated with;

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[L] verb, transitive choose, select

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[LF] noun scar

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[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

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

[LHL] adjective small

[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

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

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[LL] conjunction where

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[HH] noun a women’s society

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[LLHL] noun a kind of edible snail, small with a lightweight shell

[HHH] noun water

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

[L] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive to be able to, know how to, master

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

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

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

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

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[L] verb, transitive entice, lure, bribe, cajole

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

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

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[LLL] noun room

[LH] noun canoe

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LF] noun a ditch containing water, a large pit, dam

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LLH] noun spider web

[HH] noun the sun

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[LL] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[H] noun child, offspring

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms