Ibibio English

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

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[LLHF] noun world

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[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[HHL] adjective old

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[LHL] noun basket

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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[LH] noun onion

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[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

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[LL] verb, transitive fail to show appreciation, criticize what has been done for one

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

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[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

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

[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun electricity

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[HF] noun stream.

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

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[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

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[LL] noun river

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[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

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[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

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[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

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[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

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[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] 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 slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

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[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

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 cover, close with a cover or lid; heap up

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs; unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun European

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[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

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[LH] noun neigbour

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun warm

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[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

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[HHH] verb, intransitive become melted

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

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

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

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

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun middle

[LHL] numeral five

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

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

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms