Ibibio English

[HH] noun mosquito

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun discrimination

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[HF] noun horn, trumpet

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[LD] adjective first

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[LHL] noun priest

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[HHF] noun chameleon

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[LH] noun fence

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[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun hut, improvised temporary shelter(in the bush or at the fishing ponds)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

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[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

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[LL] ideophone describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

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[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

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[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

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[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

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[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[LL] verb, transitive make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive hide

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[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun walking stick.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

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[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

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[HH] noun urine.

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[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

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[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun young men, youths

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

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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

[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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.

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

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge bag of flour, it falls with a thud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive vomit

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[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a heavy round object such as a coconut or palm fruit cluster when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LL] verb, transitive knock

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[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

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[HLHL] noun armpit

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[HLLL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] interj. what

[LHL] interjection no

[HH] noun dream

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

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adverb not even

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[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

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[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)

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

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

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[F] noun tea

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

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

[LH] noun right (direction)

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[LHH] noun left (direction)

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

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[HHH] noun feast

[LHH] noun needle

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[HL] adverb yet, then