Ibibio English

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[HF] noun root

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[LHL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

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[L] verb, transitive find and keep

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[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

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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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[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

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[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

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[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

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

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

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[L] verb, transitive send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

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[HHF] noun porcupine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

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[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

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[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

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[HHF] noun year

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[LHHH] noun a kind of dance performed in the moonlight

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

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

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[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

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[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

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[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 cut through, cut off; pl chop.

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[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] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

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[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

[HH] verb, transitive greet, thank, congragulate, express

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[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

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[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

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[LHL] noun brain

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[LHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

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[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] roar (of thunder)

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[LL] conjunction with, and

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[HLHH] noun stain

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

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[HHHH] noun eternity

[HLL] noun a children’s running and hiding game played by moonlight

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

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

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[LH] noun oyster

[HHH] noun water

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

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[H] pronoun what, who which

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[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

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[HD] noun grandfather

[H] verb, intransitive become stupid, retarded

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LLL] numeral four

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LL] noun life, destiny, universe, creation

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

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