Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HL] noun pimple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

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[LHL] noun rice

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[LLL] noun crocodile

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[LH] noun lizard

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[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

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[HH] noun person, human being; someone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive beg, beg for; plead with, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[LH] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

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[LH] noun husband

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tooth.

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[HF] noun nest.

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[LLL] noun world.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HH] noun tortoise.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

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[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun door hinge

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

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

[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHHH] noun [Efik] a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

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[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

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

[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] conjunction and, with

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[LH] noun my father

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

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

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[LH] noun oyster

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

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

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[LHLL] noun rice

[LL] noun your mother

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

[LH] noun cssave fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[HHHH] noun blood

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LH] noun fishhook

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark