Ibibio English

[HH] noun mosquito

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

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[LH] noun lizard

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[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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[HH] noun crying, weeping

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[H] verb, intransitive become thickened (e.g. broth thickened by flavor); become dirty (e.g. cloths or water)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive belch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

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[HL] noun ball

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun chin.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

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[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun mouth

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[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

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[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive become resistant, obstinate (of a person, an animal); become difficult (of work, a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive even, even if, unless, not even.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun grace, favour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[LF] noun scar

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[HHH] noun a seat without a back

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[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] conjunction and, with

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

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

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HHH] noun something rotten

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[LL] adjective small, few

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[LHH] noun a shrine

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

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

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

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

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[LHL] noun pigeon

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

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

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[L] verb, transitive kill

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface