Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun cannon

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[LLLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

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[HHH] adjective new

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[LD] adjective first

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] become broken, break(of its own accord)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive father a child

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive break (a long thin object such as a stick or bone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive reveal a secret, narrate a story, convey information, inform, relate, (all have derogatory connotation)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[HF] noun chin.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun knee.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun toad

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[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

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[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive eat in tiny bits, nibble at, tear into bits, pick at (a sore).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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 greet, thank, congragulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun the side of the face from temple to jaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun thick porridge

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[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb here.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun fart

[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adverb not even

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HF] noun horn of animal

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

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

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

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[F] noun tea

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[HH] noun rope

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun middle

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HF] noun a kind of tree with soft wood, probably Alstonia congensis (Dalziel)

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[HF] noun noise

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

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

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)