Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[HL] noun priest

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[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become thickened (e.g. broth thickened by flavor); become dirty (e.g. cloths or water)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[H] noun wait, wait for

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[LH] become broken, break(of its own accord)

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun stream.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun gonorrhea.

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[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

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[LH] noun debt

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[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

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive walk on the balls of the feet, walk on tiptoe

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels (pl. of kpat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive become big

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[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[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

[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

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[LH] noun grace, favour

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun scar

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] noun a shoot (esp. referes to the shoot of a a yam stored in the yam marn prior to planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun my

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

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

[HHH] adjective new

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[HL] noun knuckle

[HH] noun descendants

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

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

[HH] noun the sour orange

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

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

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

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HHH] noun a lump (of meat, a clay), a mass; a nest made by ants

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

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

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

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

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[LL] verb, transitive take fire, carry fire

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

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

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

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

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

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[LL] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark