Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun comb

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[LHF] noun yawn

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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

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[LHH] noun needle

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[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

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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[HL] noun headtie

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[H] verb, intransitive stand

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

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[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

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[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

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[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

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[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

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[LLL] noun young men, youths

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[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

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

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

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[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[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

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive knock

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

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

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[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

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[HH] noun penis

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[HHHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

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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

[HLF] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

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

[LHH] noun calamity

[LH] noun a rattle, musical instrument filled with seeds or pebbles which is shaken; strings of seeds worn around ankles and wrists to make noise when dancing

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

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

[HH] noun sand

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

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

[LL] verb, transitive take fire, carry fire

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[L] verb, transitive grate

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[HF] noun trouble

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LL] noun quarrel

[HH] noun childhood

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

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