Ibibio English

[HF] noun dust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

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[LHHH] noun table

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[LHH] noun needle

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

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive stand

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[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become quiet, calm, lonely (of a place, of wind or water)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun spear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

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[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective big

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun laughter

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

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[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

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[HHH] noun smallpox

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

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[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

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[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

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[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

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[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

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

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[LHH] noun scum

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[LH] noun my father

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

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

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[HH] verb, intransitive talk in an angry, high-piched voice; ideophone: sound of a frightened, wounded dog

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

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

[L] verb, intransitive be small

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

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hang down; weigh down, lower (as wet clothes lower a line or heavy fruits on a branch)

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

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

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HH] noun oppression

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LH] noun fishhook

[H] verb, transitive suck

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

[H] verb, transitive suck

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

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

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

[LL] verb, transitive cook a very small quantity of rich afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness