Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun God, god

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[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

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[HHH] adjective new

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[LHHH] adjective big, huge

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[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

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[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

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[HHL] noun man, male

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive belch

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[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

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[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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[HH] noun hunger

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[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

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[HHF] noun porcupine.

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[HLL] noun tongue.

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[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

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[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

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[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

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[HHH] noun whirlwind.

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[HF] noun stream.

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[HHH] noun firewood.

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[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

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

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[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun time

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

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[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

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

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

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive become resistant, obstinate (of a person, an animal); become difficult (of work, a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

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[HH] verb, transitive eat in tiny bits, nibble at, tear into bits, pick at (a sore).

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[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive copulate

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[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

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[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[HH] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

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[HH] verb, intransitive become accustomed to, familiar with, associated with;

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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

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[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

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[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

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[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] question where?

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[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

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[LH] roar (of thunder)

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[HD] adverb also, too

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LLLH] noun business

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[LL] noun lies

[HHLHDH] noun wart

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

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

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

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[LL] verb, transitive take fire, carry fire

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

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[F] noun tea

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

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

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[HDH] noun some

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[HH] noun friend

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

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

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[HH] noun ear

[HF] noun noise

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)