Ibibio English

[HF] noun a bundle, a bundle of long, stiff objects, a bundle of twenty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun dust

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[HF HL] noun pimple

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[LH] adjective all, every

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[LD] adjective first

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[LHH] noun clan chief

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[HHH] noun bee

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[LHDH] noun left-handed person

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[HH] noun crying, weeping

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

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[LH] verb, transitive scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

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

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive fierce, brave, valiant, dare, become hot, burn (of pepper), become sarp, function work (of medicine, magic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

verb, transitive become smooth

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[LH] noun husband

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a bundle of ten, twenty, fifty, etc..

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

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[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

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[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

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[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

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

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[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

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[HH] noun saliva.

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[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dog.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

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[LHL] noun electricity

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[LH] adjective big

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[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

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[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

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[LHHH] noun a kind of dance performed in the moonlight

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

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[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

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[LLL] noun young men, youths

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

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[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

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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

[LF] noun scar

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

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[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

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[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

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[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

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

[HLL] noun shadow

[LHH] noun calamity

[LHH] noun scum

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LL] noun my mother

[LLH] noun basket

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HHH] noun water

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

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

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

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

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LH] noun right (direction)

[HHHH] noun blood

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

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark