Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

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[HH] noun the first-born son

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[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

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[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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[LL] ideophone describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

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[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

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[HH] noun knee.

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[LLL] noun world.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

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[LL] noun millipede.

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

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[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

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

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[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

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[LHHH] noun a kind of dance performed in the moonlight

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[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

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[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive; verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

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[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

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

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[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)

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[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

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[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

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

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[LL] noun scar, welt

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

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[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

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[HLHL] noun armpit

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[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun fart

[HHH] noun water

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HHHH] noun food

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

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

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[LH] noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)

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

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

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

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

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

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[LH] noun oyster

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[L] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive to be able to, know how to, master

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

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

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

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HH] verb, intransitive become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

[LH] noun canoe

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] noun oppression

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LF] noun a ditch containing water, a large pit, dam

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[LH] noun cssave fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[HHHH] noun blood

[HH] noun the sun

[LHH] noun needle

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[HHL] noun your kinsman