Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[HHH] adjective new

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[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun A sexually transmitted infection (STI) in men, involves painful swellings on the groin area that may impede walking

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

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[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

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[LH] verb, transitive imitate

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[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

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[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

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[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun husband

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun greeting.

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[LH] noun strange, alien.

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[HF] noun good, genuine.

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[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun parrot

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

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[HH] noun vagina

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[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

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[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

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

[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun side, edge

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[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

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[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LL] noun regret

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[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sandfly

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[LHL] adjective small

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms); grope

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[LHHH] adjective secret

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LL] noun place

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

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

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

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

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[LHL] noun pigeon

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[HH] adjective new

[HHH] noun a whistle

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[LLL] noun universe

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[H] verb, transitive suck

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

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

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