Ibibio English

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun dust

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[LHH] noun settler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice.

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[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

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

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

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[LL] noun river

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[LHH] noun a cripple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun parrot

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[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun nose

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive walk on the balls of the feet, walk on tiptoe

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun nail (anat), claw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

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[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

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[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF] noun scar

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective small

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[HH] noun dream

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

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

[HLLH] noun ant

[HL] noun knuckle

[HH] noun descendants

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

[LH] noun my father

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[HHLL] noun cornsilk, the tassel at the end of an ear of corn

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

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

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

[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 weep, cry

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

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LL] noun your mother

[LF] noun your grandmother

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[LH] numeral three

[HH] noun the sun

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

[H] noun child, offspring