Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

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[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun yam

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[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

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[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL.H] verb, transitive collect, gather, pull down tendrils or other vegetation from a tree or the side of a house; tap on the back to get a persons attention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun spear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

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[LHH] noun mockery.

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[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun red

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun stream.

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[HHH] noun firewood.

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[HHF] noun mouth

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[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[HHH] noun smallpox

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[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[HHH] noun stone, mile

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[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

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

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[L] verb, transitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp of the ground or of something which should be flat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

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

[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

[H] verb, transitive pay

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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive scrape, scrape off, shave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interjection please

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

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[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk cautiously as when one sees danger, or because of mud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun cheek

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[LHL] noun brain

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

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[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[HHH] noun water

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[HLLH] noun ant

[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

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

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[HHLL] noun cornsilk, the tassel at the end of an ear of corn

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

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

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

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

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[LLL] noun room

[LL] noun room

[LH] noun calamity

[LH] noun canoe

[LHLL] noun rice

[HF] noun strength

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise