Ibibio English

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun flesh

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

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[LH] adjective all, every

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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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[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

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[HL] noun yam

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[HH] noun hunger

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[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[LHLL] noun rice.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

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 war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

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

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

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[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun coal tar

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

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

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun thick porridge

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[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

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[HLHL] noun armpit

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[LHH HL] noun the kernel of the unripe oil palm fruit, the shell is soft and can be broken with the teeth.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH HLL] noun a pool of water

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] conjunction and, with

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

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

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[LH] noun my father

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

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

[LL] noun quarrel

[LH] noun fishhook

[LHH] noun needle

[LHH] noun needle

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness