Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun town, village

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LLL] noun thunder

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[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

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[LLL] noun crocodile

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[HH] noun the first-born son

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun a young man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

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[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

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verb, transitive become smooth

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[HF] noun a bundle of ten, twenty, fifty, etc..

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun civet cat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun world.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective big

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[HF] noun laughter

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[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tail

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[LHL] noun coal tar

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun hat, cap

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[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, intransitive cough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[LH] verb, intransitive become born

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive choose, select

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

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[HLLL] noun armpit

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[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interj. yes

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun dream

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[H] verb, intransitive become gently, mild (of disposition, weather); adverb: quietly, safely

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

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[HD] noun grandfather

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

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

[LL] verb, transitive steal

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