Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun cat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun mosquito

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HL] noun pimple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective all, every

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LD] adjective first

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[HH] noun fight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the first wife

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive call, shout (at), scream (at), cry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

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[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive copulate

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

[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[HH] noun periwinkle

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LL] pronoun my

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[LLLH] noun business

[HLHH] noun stain

[HL] noun knuckle

[LHH] noun mockery

[LL] noun lies

[LL] conjunction where

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

[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)

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

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

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

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

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[LLL] noun room

[LH] noun canoe

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LLL] noun universe

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[LLH] noun spider web

[LH] noun fishhook

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)

[H] verb, transitive attach, put together, fasten, lock, hang (from a point, or curtains, tie on so that it may hang)

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)