Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

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[LHLL] noun king

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[LHF] noun yawn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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

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[L] verb, intransitive become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

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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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

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[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the back (anat).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pig.

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[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

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[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive stick into a narrow space, wedge in, put between.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

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[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a cripple

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[HH] noun a set of five yams

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[LHL] noun coal tar

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[HF] noun advice

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun young men, youths

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive even, even if, unless, not even.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive become big

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

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[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HH] verb, transitive scrape, scrape off, shave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun weeds, grass

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leaf (gen term esp for leaves which are not eaten)

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[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun button

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

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

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HHH] noun something rotten

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LH] noun my father

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

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LL] adjective small, few

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[LL] numeral second

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[HH] noun friend

[HHH] noun a whistle

[HHHH] noun a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[HL] adverb yet, then

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

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

[LL] verb, transitive warm food, reheat afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)