Ibibio English

[HF] noun a bundle, a bundle of long, stiff objects, a bundle of twenty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

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[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[HF] noun slave

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[LLHL] noun a young man

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[HHH] noun bee

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[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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[LHLL] noun hiccup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

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[L] verb, transitive find and keep

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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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off(ripe or dead fruit), fall out(of hair)

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[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

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[HL] noun headtie

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

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[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

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[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

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verb, transitive become smooth

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[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

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[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

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

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[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a set of five yams

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun impotent man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp of the ground or of something which should be flat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

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[H] verb, transitive judge a case

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

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[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, transitive vomit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

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

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

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[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LH] noun fear

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[HL] noun knuckle

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

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LH] noun my father

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HHLL] noun cornsilk, the tassel at the end of an ear of corn

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HL] noun shilling

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[HD] noun grandfather

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LL] noun your mother

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

[HF] noun a kind of tree with soft wood, probably Alstonia congensis (Dalziel)

[LLL] numeral four

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

[LHL] numeral five

[LH] noun fishhook

[H] verb, transitive suck

[L] verb, transitive kill

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell