Ibibio English

[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun okra, okro

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

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[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

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[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[L] verb, intransitive call, shout (at), scream (at), cry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun chin.

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[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

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[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

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[HH] verb, transitive stick into a narrow space, wedge in, put between.

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

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[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

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[HH] noun rope.

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[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun time

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[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

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[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

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[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

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[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

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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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[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

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

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

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[HH] noun penis

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[LH] noun grace, favour

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LLH] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[HHF] noun eczema

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LH] verb, transitive singe

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

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[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

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

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

[HH] noun friend

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LHH] noun middle

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LH] noun your father

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

[HH] noun ear

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[HL] adverb yet, then

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

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

[H] verb, transitive attach, put together, fasten, lock, hang (from a point, or curtains, tie on so that it may hang)

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness