Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[LH] adjective all, every

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[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun a strong wind

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[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun pawpaw

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[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

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[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

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[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

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[HF] noun monkey

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[LL] noun the back (anat).

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[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[LLH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pay

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

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

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

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[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

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[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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

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[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb here.

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[HHHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

[LLL] adverb not even

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HHH] adjective new

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

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[LHH] noun calamity

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LLL] noun mould

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

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

[HHF] noun hiccup

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[LH] noun oyster

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[HF] noun mortar

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[LLH] noun ability

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LHH] adjective many, much

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded