Ibibio English

[HF HL] noun pimple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

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[LLLL] noun wall

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

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[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

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[LLL] noun wasp

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[LL] noun the first wife

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[HHH] noun okra, okro

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[L] verb, transitive find and keep

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[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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[HL] noun ball

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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] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

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[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

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[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

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[HF] noun pus

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[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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

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[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

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[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH, LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

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[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

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[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive pay attention (used with utON, as in a kpaN utON, listen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

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[HH] noun periwinkle

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[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] noun a shoot (esp. referes to the shoot of a a yam stored in the yam marn prior to planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] adjective small

[LHHH] noun skull

[LH] conj. so, so that

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[HHF] noun eczema

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HHH] verb, intransitive become melted

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (to show seriousness and thus make a child comply)

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[HHH] noun a lump (of meat, a clay), a mass; a nest made by ants

[HF] noun second-born daughter

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

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

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

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

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[LHL] noun pigeon

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[HH] noun the sun

[LH] noun fishhook

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

[HH] verb, transitive deceive