Ibibio English

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun rice

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[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

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[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

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[LL] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

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[HL] noun headtie

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[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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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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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[H] verb, transitive hide

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[LH] noun husband

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HHHL] noun nest.

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[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun saliva.

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[H] verb, transitive be sated, make overfull (from eating).

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[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

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[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

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[HF] noun stream.

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[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

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

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[LH] adjective big

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[LLL] noun toad

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

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[HF] noun salt

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[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

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[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[HHL] noun blood

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[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] transitive verb remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[HH] verb, transitive lose ones temper and take some action (decide to do something or become stubborn), act in a fit of anger.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

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[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 bag of flour, it falls with a thud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[LLH] noun banana

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[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

[LL] conjunction and, with

[LL] conjunction with, and

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

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

[LHH] noun mockery

[HHL] noun a powdered vegetable mixture used in juju sacrifices

[LLL] noun a kind of basket used for catching fish or crabs, small ones are made of palm fronds, large ones of cane

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

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

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

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

[LH] noun oyster

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[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

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hop, jump; jump over; abate, let up (pl. of tamma)

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[LF] noun your grandmother

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[LH] noun fishing spear

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[LLH] noun spider web

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

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