Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun cannon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun electric fish

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[LHF] noun yawn

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[HF] noun slave

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[LHHH] noun table

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

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[LHL] noun python

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[LHH] noun needle

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[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

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

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[LH] verb, intransitive fierce, brave, valiant, dare, become hot, burn (of pepper), become sarp, function work (of medicine, magic)

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[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[HH] number twenty.

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[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun greeting.

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[LHH] noun mockery.

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[LH] noun strange, alien.

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cricket

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[HH] noun fire.

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[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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[LL] noun time

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[LH] noun parrot

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH, LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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])

[LL] verb, transitive knock

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[HF] noun cockroach

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective small

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HD] interj. yes

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[LL] conjunction with, and

[LLLH] noun business

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HL] noun knuckle

[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

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

[HH] verb, intransitive become left over, remain

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

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

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[L] verb, transitive grate

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[HH] verb, intransitive become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LL] noun your mother

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

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

[LLL] numeral four

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[LH] noun your father

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

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

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

[HL] noun guava

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise