Ibibio English

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

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[HDH] noun chief, lord (traditional or religious)

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[HHH] noun comb

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[LF] noun whisper

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

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[LHL] noun python

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[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wasp

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[HFHF] noun measles

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

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[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

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

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[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

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[LH] verb, intransitive become quiet, calm, lonely (of a place, of wind or water)

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[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

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[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

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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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[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

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[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

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[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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[LHH] noun copulation.

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[LL] noun axe.

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[LL] noun court, council meeting.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

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[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LH] noun underpants.

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[LHLL] noun electricity

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[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

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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.

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[HH] noun fire.

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[HHF] noun mouth

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[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

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[HHH] noun stone, mile

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[HHH] noun nose

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

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[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

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[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

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[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

[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

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[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

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[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

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[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

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[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

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

[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHHH] noun [Efik] a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

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[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

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[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

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[H] verb, intransitive cough

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

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

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[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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

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[HH] noun periwinkle

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

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[HHH] noun a seat without a back

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[LHL] noun a shoot (esp. referes to the shoot of a a yam stored in the yam marn prior to planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

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[LHHH] noun skull

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

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[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[HLL] noun a children’s running and hiding game played by moonlight

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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[LH] noun my father

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[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

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

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

[L] verb, transitive grate

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HF] noun house

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[HH] noun the sun

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

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

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop