Ibibio English

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun mosquito

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[LHLL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun top, apex

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[HHH] noun okra, okro

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[LHH] noun needle

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[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

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[LLHH] noun a strong wind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the back (anat).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tooth.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

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[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

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.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

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[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

[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a set of five yams

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun nose

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[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

[L] verb, transitive pay attention (used with utON, as in a kpaN utON, listen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[HH] noun dream

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HLLH] noun ant

[LHH] noun scum

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[HHLLLL] noun a kind of large forest bird, eagle, it can beat the air with its wings and make a great noise

[HH] noun the sour orange

[LL] noun my mother

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[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

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[L] verb, intransitive become black

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[LLH] verb, transitive to make a sign of disgust, impatience, disapproval, contempt; smack the lips over a good taste

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

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

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun middle

[HF] noun house

[LL] noun your mother

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

[HF] noun a kind of tree with soft wood, probably Alstonia congensis (Dalziel)

[LLL] numeral four

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

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

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement