Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

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[LHLL] noun king

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[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun horn, trumpet

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[LH] verb, transitive play

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[LL] verb, transitive boast

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

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[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

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[LL] noun foot

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[LLL] noun toad

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[LLH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun grace, favour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

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[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun skull

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[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun something rotten

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[HH] verb, intransitive become sweet, delicious, tasty, enjoyable (of food or drink only)

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[H] pronoun what, who which

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[LL] verb, transitive take fire, carry fire

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LL] noun room

[LHLL] noun rice

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

[HH] noun weavil

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LH] noun fishhook

[LHH] noun needle

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze