Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun cannon

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[HHH] adjective new

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[LHL] noun python

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[HHH] verb, transitive beg, beg for; plead with, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

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

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[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

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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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[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

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[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

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[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

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[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

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[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

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[LH] noun husband

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

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[LHLL] noun blessing

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[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun greeting.

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[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

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[HHL] noun women, wives

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[LH] noun belly

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[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[LHL] noun whistling

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[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

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[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive agree to, be willing to; run errands opt w utom message, errand, work

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive pay

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

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

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[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

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[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk cautiously as when one sees danger, or because of mud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

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

[LHL] adjective small

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun skull

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interj. yes

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

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

[LH] interrogative what

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

[HF] noun the gums

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

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

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[HH] noun weavil

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LL] noun your mother

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

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

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)