Ibibio English

[LLL] noun thunder

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[LHF] noun yawn

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[HF] noun horn, trumpet

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[HHH] noun stew, soup

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[HLF] noun sneeze

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[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

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[LLHH] noun a strong wind

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[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

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[H] noun wait, wait for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

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[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

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[HHHL] noun nest.

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

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[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

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[HH] noun saliva.

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[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun stream.

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun toad

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[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

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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)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

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[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

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[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

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[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun scar

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LHL] interjection no

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[LH] noun fear

[LHH] noun calamity

[HFHF] noun a kind of small mushroom which grows on dead trees, it can be white, red, or brown

[HH] noun face, front, future

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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

[L] verb, transitive sell

[L] verb, intransitive shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth flapping in the wind; tremble, move about)

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[LL] noun my mother

[LLLL] noun rust

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

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

[HH] verb, transitive look at

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

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

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

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

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

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise