Ibibio English

[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun squirrel

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adjective new

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LL] pronoun you

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[HHL] noun forest

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive fail to show appreciation, criticize what has been done for one

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[LH] verb, transitive scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

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

[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun rope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun salt

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[LH] noun debt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[HHL] noun cooking hearth

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[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun nose

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[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neigbour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun penis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

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[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

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

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[LL] conjunction with, and

[LLLH] noun business

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

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[LHH] noun mockery

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

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

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

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

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

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LL] verb, intransitive crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LLLL] noun rust

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

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

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

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

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[LHH] noun a shrine

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

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

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

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

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[HHH] noun a whistle

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise