Ibibio English

[HF] noun a bundle, a bundle of long, stiff objects, a bundle of twenty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun dust

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[HH] noun mosquito

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

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[LHH] noun clan chief

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun hut, improvised temporary shelter(in the bush or at the fishing ponds)

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

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[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive imitate

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

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[HF] noun monkey

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[HF] noun rain.

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[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

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[LHL] noun electricity

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[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun calabash (gen term), Lagenaria vulgaris (Dalziel); a calabash container; any small container to drink from; a standard measure (about a cup) for gari, rice, beans.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun gonorrhea.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tortoise.

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[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

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

[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] 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

[LL] verb, transitive stand in a relative position.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

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[LLL] noun pl people

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[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun brain

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[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[HF] noun horn of animal

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[LL] verb, intransitive crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[H] pronoun what, who which

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LH] noun canoe

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

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