Ibibio English

[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun squirrel

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[HHH] adjective new

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHDH] noun left-handed person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

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[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tomach; a bag-like object esp one containing air; a musical instrument of the accordian type; a kind of thumb piano made of wood of calabash with metal keys; a play in which the thumb piano is used.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun walking stick.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[LH] noun debt

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[HHF] noun year

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

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[LH] noun foot race, running

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[HH] noun hip joint

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

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[L] verb, intransitive become able, know how; tv surpass, excel (used in making com- parisons), triumph over, beat (win)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pay

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[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fail to come about, fail to materialize; fail to carry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLLLH HLL] noun a pool of water

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun warm

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

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

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

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[HL] noun sixpence

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become left over, remain

[HL] noun shilling

[H] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hop, jump; jump over; abate, let up (pl. of tamma)

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

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

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[HH] adjective new

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LL] noun a game of struggle

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

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement