Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

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[LHLL] noun rice

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[LH] noun meeting place

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wife, female

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[LHLL] noun hiccup

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

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[LH] noun onion

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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

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[H] noun wait, wait for

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[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

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[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

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[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

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[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

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[HHHL] noun nest.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

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

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[HHH] noun dog.

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[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

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[HLHL] noun red

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[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fire.

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[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tortoise.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

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[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

[HH] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood) (pl. of kpaN)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

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

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHHH] noun [Efik] a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

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[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

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[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[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)

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[LHL] noun brain

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

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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

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

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

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[HF] noun the gums

[HHH] verb, intransitive become melted

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

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

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[LLH] verb, transitive to make a sign of disgust, impatience, disapproval, contempt; smack the lips over a good taste

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[H] verb, transitive eject, hurl, throw, shoot, sting

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LF] noun your husband

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[HD] phrase What day?

[L] verb, transitive kill

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface