Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

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[HH] noun flesh

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[HH] noun mosquito

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[HHH] noun shoulder

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

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[LHH] noun clan chief

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[LLL] noun pot

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL.H] verb, transitive collect, gather, pull down tendrils or other vegetation from a tree or the side of a house; tap on the back to get a persons attention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

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

[LLL] noun civet cat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

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[HHH] noun firewood.

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[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

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[HH] noun tortoise.

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[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun parrot

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[LH] noun debt

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun banana

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[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

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[HLLHL] noun armpit

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[LL] noun foot

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[LH LL] noun regret

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LL] conjunction and, with

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[LHH] noun mockery

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[HD] adverb also

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[HH] verb, intransitive shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[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] verb, transitive awaken

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[LL] numeral second

[LLL] noun room

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[HF] noun trouble

[HF] noun strength

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[HH] noun oppression

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

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[LH] noun your father

[LL] noun life, destiny, universe, creation

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

[L] verb, transitive write

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell

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

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness