Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

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[LHLL] noun cannon

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[HF] noun slave

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[LLHL] noun a young man

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[HH] noun fight

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[HH] noun the sediment which sinks to the bottom of the pot when palm oil is boiled after being extracted from the fruit, dregs

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[HF] noun a kind of reed; a sleeping mat woven from reed

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[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

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[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[H] noun wait, wait for

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[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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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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[L] verb, transitive send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun world.

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[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

[LHH] noun copulation.

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[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

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[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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[HLHL] noun red

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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

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[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

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[LH] noun spoon

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[LL] noun foot

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[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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[LH] adjective big

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[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[LL] noun hat, cap

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[HF] noun advice

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

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[HH] noun fish (general)

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[H] verb, transitive agree to, be willing to; run errands opt w utom message, errand, work

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

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

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[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive greet, thank, congragulate, express

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[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

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[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

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[HH] noun pity, sympathy

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[HH] noun penis

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

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

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[LH] noun my father

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HH] noun the sour orange

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

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

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[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

[HHH] noun water

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

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

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[LHL] noun pigeon

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LL] noun room

[LH] noun birth mark

[LL] noun grave

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HF] noun house

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HF] noun skill, talent

[HHH] noun feast

[LHH] noun needle

[H] verb, transitive having the urge to sleep

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak