Ibibio English

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun squirrel

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[HF] noun horn, trumpet

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[LH] noun meeting place

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[HHL] adjective old

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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[LHL] noun basket

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[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

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[HHF] noun chameleon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

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[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

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[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

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[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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[H] verb, transitive hide

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[LHH] noun copulation.

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[LL] noun axe.

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[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

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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

[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).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

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[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

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[HHF] noun mouth

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

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[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

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[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

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

[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

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

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[HD] interjection please

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

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[LH] noun grace, favour

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

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

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[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

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[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

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[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

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[LHHH] noun skull

[LLL] adverb not even

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LH] noun fear

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[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 mockery

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

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[HH] verb, intransitive talk in an angry, high-piched voice; ideophone: sound of a frightened, wounded dog

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

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

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[H] verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

[HD] noun grandfather

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[LH] noun birth mark

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[HF] noun mortar

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HF] noun house

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[LLL] numeral four

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LLL] noun beauty

[HHL] noun your kinsman

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise