Ibibio English

[LLHL] noun cat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun comb

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[HF] noun root

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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

[HHL] noun wife, female

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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

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[L] verb, transitive father a child

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

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[LH] verb, intransitive fierce, brave, valiant, dare, become hot, burn (of pepper), become sarp, function work (of medicine, magic)

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[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[HH] number twenty.

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[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

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

[HH] noun meat, rat.

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noun copulation

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[HH] noun walking stick.

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[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

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[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

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[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

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[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

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

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[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

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[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

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[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

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[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

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[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[LLL] noun toad

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[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

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[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

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[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

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[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

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[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

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[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

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[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive become big

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[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

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[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

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[LH] noun grace, favour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LHHH] noun skull

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[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[LH] numeral third, three

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] noun a women’s society

[L] verb, transitive sell

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

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

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[LHH] noun clan chief

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

[HHH] noun water

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

[L] verb, transitive grate

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[LLL] numeral four

[LLL] noun universe

[HF] noun skill, talent

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[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 attach, put together, fasten, lock, hang (from a point, or curtains, tie on so that it may hang)

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms