Ibibio English

[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive belch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

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[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

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[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a bundle of ten, twenty, fifty, etc..

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tomach; a bag-like object esp one containing air; a musical instrument of the accordian type; a kind of thumb piano made of wood of calabash with metal keys; a play in which the thumb piano is used.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[LHHH] noun a loan

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HF] noun drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

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[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun time

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun cooking hearth

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] 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 (pl. of kpat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[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

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLHH] noun European

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[LHL] adjective small

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LL] noun regret

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[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

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[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

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[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[LHL] adjective without response

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

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

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[HL] noun knuckle

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

[HH] noun the sour orange

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

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

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[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)

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[HH] verb, transitive look at

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

[HL] noun sixpence

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[HH] verb, transitive chop

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hop, jump; jump over; abate, let up (pl. of tamma)

[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, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LH] noun cssave fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun spider web

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance