Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun lungs

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[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

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[LHH] noun clan chief

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[HFHF] noun measles

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[HH] noun crying, weeping

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[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

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[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

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[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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

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

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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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[H] verb, intransitive come

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[HHF] noun spear.

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[HH] noun meat, rat.

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[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

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[LL] noun millipede.

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[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

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[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

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[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun coal tar

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[LLL] noun young men, youths

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[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

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[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

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[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

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

[H] verb, transitive cost

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

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[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

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[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

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[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

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[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

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[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cover, close with a cover or lid; heap up

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[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs; unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

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

[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[HH] noun pity, sympathy

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[HF] noun leaf (gen term esp for leaves which are not eaten)

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[LH] noun today

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[HLHL] noun armpit

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[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun button

[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[LHL] interjection no

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[HHF] noun eczema

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[HF] noun horn of animal

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LHH] noun calamity

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

[HF] noun the gums

[LL] adjective small, few

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[HH] noun the sour orange

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[LF] noun my grandmother

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

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

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

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

[LHLL] noun rice

[LL] noun grave

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[HH] noun weight

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[LHH] adjective many, much

[HHH] noun feast

[LH] numeral three

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

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

[H] verb, transitive suck

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[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)