Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[LF] noun whisper

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[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

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[LL] noun the first wife

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

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[LH] verb, intransitive become quiet, calm, lonely (of a place, of wind or water)

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

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[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

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[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

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[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

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[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun coal tar

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[HHL] noun blood

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[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

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[H] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves).

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[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

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[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

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[HH] verb, transitive greet, thank, congragulate, express

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[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[LLLH] noun centipede

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[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[HHHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

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[LHH HL] noun the kernel of the unripe oil palm fruit, the shell is soft and can be broken with the teeth.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LLH] noun warm

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[HHH] noun fart

[LHL] adjective without response

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

[LLL] noun a kind of small green squash, curcurbita pepo

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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

[HLHHH] noun disorder

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

[HHH] adjective new

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HFHF] noun a kind of small mushroom which grows on dead trees, it can be white, red, or brown

[HF] noun the gums

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[HD] adverb also

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

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

[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)

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

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

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

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[HH] noun rope

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[HH] noun weavil

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[HH] noun childhood

[HH] verb, transitive mix; adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

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

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate

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