Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

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[HHH] noun comb

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[HHH] noun water buffalo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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

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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[HHH] noun bee

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[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

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[LHH] noun needle

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[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

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

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[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

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[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

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[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

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

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[HH] number twenty.

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[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

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[HHHL] noun sacred place where family heirlooms are kept; archive.

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[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.

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[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

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[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

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[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

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[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

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[LH] noun debt

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[HHF] noun year

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[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

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[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

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[HHH] noun nose

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[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

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[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

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[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

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[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive; verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLHHH] noun [Efik] a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line), spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interj. what

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

[HD] adverb also, too

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

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

[HHH] noun something rotten

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[LHH] noun calamity

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LH] noun my father

[LL] noun place

[HH] noun the sour orange

[HHH] verb, intransitive become melted

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

[LL] noun my mother

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[LLH] verb, transitive to make a sign of disgust, impatience, disapproval, contempt; smack the lips over a good taste

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

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

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[LF] noun your husband

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] noun weavil

[HH] noun sand on the shore

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

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

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)