Ibibio English

[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun lungs

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[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

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[LF] noun whisper

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun root

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of reed; a sleeping mat woven from reed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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 reveal a secret, narrate a story, convey information, inform, relate, (all have derogatory connotation)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

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[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

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[HH] noun fire.

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[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

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] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive vomit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leaf (gen term esp for leaves which are not eaten)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

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

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[HHH] noun postherd

[HH] noun sand

[HH] noun a women’s society

[LH] verb, transitive squeeze (a fruit, a wet cloth). press (oil from ayop), milk

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[LHH] noun a shrine

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[LL] noun room

[LL] noun grave

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[HHHH] noun blood

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LHL] numeral five

[H] verb, transitive suck

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

[LL] verb, transitive warm food, reheat afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)