Ibibio English

[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the first-born son

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun clan chief

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[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

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[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

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[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

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[LH] noun onion

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[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

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[LL] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

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[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

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[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

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[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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[LL] noun mother.

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[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

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[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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 bitter

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[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

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[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

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[LF] noun impotent man

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[HHH] noun nose

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[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive become big

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[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

[HH] verb, transitive overlap, cross, heap, pile on top of; arrange, set up, prepare for use

[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wing

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[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

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[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun scar

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[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

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[H.HL] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[HD] adverb also, too

[LLL] noun a kind of small green squash, curcurbita pepo

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Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HHH] adjective new

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

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

[LL] noun my mother

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[LH] noun oyster

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[L] verb, intransitive become black

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[HDH] noun some

[HH] noun weight

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LL] noun quarrel

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child