Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun rice

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[LF] noun whisper

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[HHL] noun forest

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[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

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[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

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[HHH] noun bee

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[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

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[HL] noun yam

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[HH] noun hunger

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[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

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[LH] verb, intransitive fierce, brave, valiant, dare, become hot, burn (of pepper), become sarp, function work (of medicine, magic)

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[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

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[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

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

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[LL] noun mother.

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[LHHH] noun big, huge.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

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[HH] verb, transitive stick into a narrow space, wedge in, put between.

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[HHHH ] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive turn, twist, twist around, twist together (poss involves a more complete turn or twist than fiak); iv become twisted (of its own accord); turn (of a wheel).

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[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

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[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tortoise.

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[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

[LHL] noun whistling

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[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

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[HH] noun a set of five yams

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[LHH] noun crab

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[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

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[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

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[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun coal tar

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

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[LF] noun impotent man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[LL] noun scar, welt

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[HLHL] noun armpit

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[HLF] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

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[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun fart

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

[LLLH] noun business

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[HLL] noun shadow

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[LH] noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

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

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[LH] noun birth mark

[LHF] noun third-born son

[HF] noun house

[HLL] adverb completely

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

[HF] noun a kind of tree with soft wood, probably Alstonia congensis (Dalziel)

[LLL] numeral four

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LL] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance

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