Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun king

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

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[LL] noun path in the bush

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun crocodile

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[LHL] adjective whole, complete

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[HHL] adjective old

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[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[HH] verb, transitive break (a long thin object such as a stick or bone)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

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[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a tree with small blue skinned fruits, their green flesh is softened before eating by roasting or by immersing in hot water, the softened flesh is similar to avocado but it is slightly sour, it is customarily accompanied by roasted maize, Bush butter tree

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun knee.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

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[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

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[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

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[HHH] noun nose

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

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

[H] verb, transitive cost

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge bag of flour, it falls with a thud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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

[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

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[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

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[HH] verb, intransitive become accustomed to, familiar with, associated with;

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[HH] noun cheek

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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

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

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

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[HLL] noun shadow

[HLHH] noun stain

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[HF] noun the gums

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

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

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LH] noun canoe

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[HH] noun oppression

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance