Ibibio English

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

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[HF] noun root

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[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun clan chief

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive belch

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

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[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

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[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

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[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

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[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

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[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun gonorrhea.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

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[HH] noun a set of five yams

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[HF] noun advice

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[HH] 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) (pl. of kpaN)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

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[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

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[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle

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[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

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[LL] noun scar, welt

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

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[H.HL] noun sandfly

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[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

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[LH] conj. so, so that

[HHH] noun button

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

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

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

[LL] conjunction with, and

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

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

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[HHL] noun a powdered vegetable mixture used in juju sacrifices

[LLL] noun intestines

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[L] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive to be able to, know how to, master

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

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

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[H] verb, intransitive become stupid, retarded

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HH] verb, intransitive become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

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

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LHH] noun slap

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

[HHH] noun feast

[LH] noun fishhook

[LLL] noun beauty

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[HF] noun noise

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)