Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

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[LH] noun lizard

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[LHL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun python

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[HH] noun the sediment which sinks to the bottom of the pot when palm oil is boiled after being extracted from the fruit, dregs

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun hut, improvised temporary shelter(in the bush or at the fishing ponds)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

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[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun headtie

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

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[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

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

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[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

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

[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

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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

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

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[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

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[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[HF] noun salt

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[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

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[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

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[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive; verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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

[H] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

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

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interj. yes

[LH] conj. so, so that

[HHH] noun water

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[HLLH] noun ant

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LL] conjunction where

[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

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

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[HHF] noun hiccup

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[HF] noun second-born daughter

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[L] verb, transitive grate

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[LHH] noun slap

[LL] noun your mother

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

[LHL] noun rice

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

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

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness