Ibibio English

[HF] noun dust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[LLLL] noun wall

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[LH] adjective all, every

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

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[HLF] noun sneeze

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

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[LLHH] noun a strong wind

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[LH] noun onion

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[L] verb, transitive find and keep

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[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

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[LH] verb, transitive play

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

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[LL] verb, transitive dip, steep, soak

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

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[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

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[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

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[HHL] noun elephant.

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[HH] noun saliva.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

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[HLHL] noun red

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

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[LL] noun foot

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

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[LH] noun parrot

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[LLL HL] noun door hinge

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[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

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

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[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

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[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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).

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[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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

[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

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

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[HH] verb, transitive overlap, cross, heap, pile on top of; arrange, set up, prepare for use

[LLLH] noun centipede

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[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[LH] noun grace, favour

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] adjective small

[LH] conj. so, so that

[HHH] noun button

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LHH] noun calamity

[HL] noun knuckle

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[LLL] noun mould

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

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

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

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

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hang down; weigh down, lower (as wet clothes lower a line or heavy fruits on a branch)

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[LL] noun grave

[HH] noun weavil

[LHL] numeral five

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[LLL] noun beauty

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)