Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun dust

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[HDH] noun chief, lord (traditional or religious)

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[HHH] noun water buffalo

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[HF] noun horn, trumpet

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[LLHL] noun a young man

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[HLF] noun sneeze

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[LH] noun onion

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[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] noun headtie

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[H] verb, intransitive stand

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

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).

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[LLL] noun world.

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[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

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[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.

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[HHHL] noun sacred place where family heirlooms are kept; archive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun eulogy.

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[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

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[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

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[HHH] noun whirlwind.

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[HH] noun fire.

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[LHH] noun crab

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[HHF] noun year

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

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[LL] noun tail

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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)

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[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

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[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

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[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

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[LL] verb, intransitive grow (of people, animals, plants, hair) (pl. of kọt [L])

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[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[LL] noun scar, welt

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[L] verb, transitive choose, select

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH LL] noun regret

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[HLH] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

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[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[L] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms); grope

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

[LLL] adverb not even

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

[HF] noun the gums

[HLL] noun a children’s running and hiding game played by moonlight

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

[L] verb, intransitive shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth flapping in the wind; tremble, move about)

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LH] noun oyster

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

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

[H] verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[L] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[HF] noun trouble

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fishhook

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful