Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun water buffalo

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[HLHL] noun lungs

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[LH] noun meeting place

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[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

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[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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

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[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

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

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[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

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[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

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

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

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[LLL] noun civet cat.

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[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun walking stick.

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[HF] noun good, genuine.

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

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[H] verb, intransitive become good.

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[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

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[LH] noun belly

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[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

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[HHF] noun mouth

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[LH] noun parrot

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[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

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[HH] noun vagina

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[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

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[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

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[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge bag of flour, it falls with a thud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

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

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive become born

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[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[LH] noun grace, favour

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[H] adverb here.

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

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[HHH] noun a seat without a back

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[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

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[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] pronoun my

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LLLH] noun business

[LH] noun fear

[LHH] noun calamity

[LHH] noun calamity

[LHH] noun scum

[HFHF] noun a kind of small mushroom which grows on dead trees, it can be white, red, or brown

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HLL] noun a children’s running and hiding game played by moonlight

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

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

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

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

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[F] noun tea

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

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

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LHH] noun middle

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LHL] noun rice

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[HH] noun the sun

[HF] noun noise

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface