Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun town, village

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[HHL] noun umbilical cord

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[HHL] adjective old

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[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

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[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun knee.

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[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

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[HH] noun a case

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[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

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[LH] adjective big

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[HH] noun gonorrhea.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

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[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

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[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

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[LHH] noun crab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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 pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[HH] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun scar, welt

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[L] verb, transitive choose, select

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[LHL] noun brain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb here.

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[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

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[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

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[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

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[HD] interj. yes

[HHH] noun fart

[LL] conjunction and, with

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[LL] noun lies

[LH] noun my father

[HHLLLL] noun a kind of large forest bird, eagle, it can beat the air with its wings and make a great noise

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

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

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] noun friend

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HH] noun oppression

[HF] noun house

[LL] noun your mother

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[LH] noun bread, biscuit