Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

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[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[HHH] noun bee

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[HH] noun fight

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[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

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[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive fail to show appreciation, criticize what has been done for one

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive father a child

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[LL] verb, transitive remove from the embers what has been roasting there (plural of dappa)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

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[H] verb, intransitive come

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[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

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[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

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

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verb, transitive become smooth

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

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[HHF] noun porcupine.

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[HHF] noun spear.

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[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun flying squirrel.

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[LL] noun rectum, piles (also used as a curse).

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[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

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[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

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[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

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[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

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[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun stream.

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[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

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[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

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[LL] noun foot

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

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

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[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

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[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

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[HH] verb, intransitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp. of the ground or of something which should be flat)

[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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[L] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun European

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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[LLH] noun banana

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[HHH] noun race

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[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

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[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

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[HH] noun penis

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

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[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun skull

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[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

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

[HHF] noun eczema

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[HHL] noun a powdered vegetable mixture used in juju sacrifices

[HF] noun the gums

[LL] noun lies

[LH] numeral third, three

[HH] noun sand

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[HD] adverb also

[LHH] noun a shrine

[HH] noun weeds, grass

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

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

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[LHLL] noun rice

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

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

[HH] noun childhood

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

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

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

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

[LL] verb, transitive warm food, reheat afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)