Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun settler

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[HHH] noun water buffalo

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[HHH] noun shoulder

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[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

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[HHH] noun bee

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[LH] noun fence

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[LH] noun onion

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[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

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[HL] noun yam

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[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

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[H] verb, transitive break

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

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[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

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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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

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[HH] verb, transitive tell

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun good, genuine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

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

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[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

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[HF] noun stream.

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

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[LLL] noun toad

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[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

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[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

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 catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[LLHD] noun groundnut

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[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

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[HH] noun penis

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[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

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[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[HHH] noun water

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

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adjective new

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LLL] noun mould

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

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HH] noun the sour orange

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

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

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

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

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

[L] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

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

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LLL] noun universe

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[HH] verb, transitive mix; adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

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