Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] adjective big, huge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun top, apex

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun pawpaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] number one hundred.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[HHF] noun year

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[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun coal tar

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[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HHH] noun weeds, grass

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun scar, welt

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[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective small

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun warm

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adverb not even

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LH] numeral third, three

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

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[LF] noun my grandmother

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[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 dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LL] noun grave

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[HH] noun ear

[LHH] noun needle

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

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

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