Ibibio English

[HF HL] noun pimple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

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[LLL] noun crocodile

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[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun a young man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

verb, transitive become smooth

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[HHF] noun porcupine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun civet cat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

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[HF] noun good, genuine.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

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

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[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

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[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

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[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

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[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun door hinge

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun impotent man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wing

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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[LH] noun the side of the face from temple to jaw

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[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[HHH] noun hunger

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interj. what

[L] verb, transitive blind

[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

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

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

[H] pronoun what, who which

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

[LF] noun your husband

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[HH] noun weavil

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

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[LLH] noun spider web

[LLL] noun beauty

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret

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

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[H] verb, transitive attach, put together, fasten, lock, hang (from a point, or curtains, tie on so that it may hang)

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