Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

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[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

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[LLLL] noun wall

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[HF] noun squirrel

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[HHH] noun stew, soup

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

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[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

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[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

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

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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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[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

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[LL] verb, transitive make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

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[HHF] noun porcupine.

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[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[HLL] noun tongue.

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

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[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

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[LF] noun message; fame.

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[HHHH ] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive turn, twist, twist around, twist together (poss involves a more complete turn or twist than fiak); iv become twisted (of its own accord); turn (of a wheel).

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[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

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[LH] noun underpants.

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[HLHL] noun red

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[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

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[HF] noun stream.

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[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[HH] noun fish (general)

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[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] 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) (pl. of kpaN)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

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[L] ideophone sound made by a heavy round object such as a coconut or palm fruit cluster when it falls to the ground

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[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

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[HH] verb, intransitive become accustomed to, familiar with, associated with;

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[HH] noun penis

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[H] adverb here.

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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

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[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

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[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[HH] noun dream

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LH] noun my father

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

[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] noun children, young of animals

[LH] verb, transitive squeeze (a fruit, a wet cloth). press (oil from ayop), milk

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[H] pronoun what, who which

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

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

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

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

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[HDH] noun some

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[LH] noun fishhook

[HH] verb, transitive mix, adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance