Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

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[LLL] noun a kind of yam formerly only planted by women, water yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

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[HF] noun horn, trumpet

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[LHL] adjective whole, complete

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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[HH] noun the sediment which sinks to the bottom of the pot when palm oil is boiled after being extracted from the fruit, dregs

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

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[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

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[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[LH] noun pawpaw

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[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

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[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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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[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

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[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

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[HF] noun stream.

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[HHH] noun firewood.

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

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[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

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[LHH] noun a cripple

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[LH] noun debt

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[LHL] noun coal tar

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

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

[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 (pl. of kpat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

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[L] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

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[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)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

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[HH] noun penis

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[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

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[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[LHL] adjective without response

[HD] adverb also, too

[HHF] noun eczema

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

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

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[LLL] noun intestines

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LH] noun my father

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

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

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

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

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] noun weight

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LL] noun your mother

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

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HD] phrase What day?

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[HH] noun childhood

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop