Ibibio English

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

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[LHLL] noun rice

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[LHH] noun settler

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[HHH] noun shoulder

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[LL] pronoun you

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[LD] adjective first

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[LH] noun fence

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[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

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[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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[H] verb, transitive hide

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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verb, transitive become smooth

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[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

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[HH] noun tooth.

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[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

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[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fire.

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[HH] noun a case

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[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HHF] noun mouth

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

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[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[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

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[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

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

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[LLHDH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

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[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] adjective secret

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

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

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[LLL] noun intestines

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

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

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HHH] noun water

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

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

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

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

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HF] noun mortar

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LHH] noun slap

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[LL] noun your mother

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

[LL] noun fufu, anything pounded for fufu, anything cut with the fingers from a mass and swallowed in balls along with afere (soup)

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

[LLH] noun spider web

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[LL] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)