Ibibio English

[LHL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun king

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[HH] noun the first-born son

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[HH] noun fight

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[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

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[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive stand

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

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[LL] noun the back (anat).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pig.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

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

[LHH] noun mockery.

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[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

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[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

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[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

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[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

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[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun crab

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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

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[LLH] transitive verb remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

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[H] verb, transitive become big

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[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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[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

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line), spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun nail (anat), claw

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[HH] noun pity, sympathy

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[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

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[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[HHH] noun a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

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

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[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

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[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[HF] noun slander, gossip

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

[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

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

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

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[L] verb, transitive grate

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[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

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] noun weavil

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[LLH] noun spider web

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[H] verb, transitive suck

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly