Uyo Ibibio Dictionary - Computational Linguistics and Spoken ...

Uyo–Bielefeld Ibibio Dictionary (Urua, Ekpenyong, Gibbon)
ayi.m /aj�m/ [ajIm] LH n: onion.
ayi.n /aj�n/ [ajIn] HH n: child, offspring (var. ejIn).
ayio /ajio/ [ajio] HHL n: sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time; the
times (var. ejio, ejo).
ayio /ajio/ [ajio] LHL n: [Efik] a dance, a type of play (var. ajo, ojo).
ayio /ajio/ [ajio] LLL n: abcess (var. ajo, ojo).
ayi.t /aj�t/ [ajIt] HH n: crying, weeping (var. ajot. ojot).
ayiya /ajija/ [ajija] LHD n: my mother, my grandmother often used as an interyection.
ayiya /ajija/ [ajija] LHL n: spines on the raffia palm, when stripping the fiber from the
frond these spines are apt to get under a persons nails or cuticles and cause infection.
ayo. /aj�/ [ajO] HF n: cluster (var. OjO).
ayo. /aj�/ [ajO] LL n: a bundle of palm leaves used as a kind of ball in a certain game;
the game in which the ball is used, the ball is thrown and players try to catch it with a
loop made of part of the palm frond or piassava (var. OjO).
ayobio /ajobio/ [ajobio] LLHH n: a strong wind (var. ojobio).
ayo.gho.ubom /aj���ubom/ [ajORO ubom] LHH LH n: calamity.
ayokyok /ajokjok/ [ajokjok] LHH n: whirlwind.
ayo.n - /aj��/ [ajON] HH n: little copper rattles worn on the waist or neck as part of the
fattening attire or put around the necks of dogs or cats (OjON ).
ayoot /ajoot/ [ajoot] HHH n: a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground (var.
ojoot, ajiit).
ayop /ajop/ [ajop] HF n: oil palm tree, the most important Ibibio flora, Elaeis guineenis
(Dalziel) (var. ejop).
ayot /ajot/ [ajot] HH n: crying, weeping (var. ajIt).
ba /ba/ [ba] H iv: be in a place; exist; seem, appear to be.
ba /ba/ [ba] L tv: find and keep.
ba /ba/ [ba] L tv: carve, butcher, split open (esp an animals belly); cut oneself or
something badly (var. bak).
baaba /baaba/ [baaba] LHF adv: not even, even, none.
baaba /baaba/ [baaba] LHL adv: not even, even, none.
baak /baak/ [baak] LL tv: be afraid, fear.
baak /baak/ [baak] LL tv: carve, butcher, split open (esp an animals belly); cut oneself
or something badly (pl. of bak).
baan /baan/ [baan] HL n: [Eng band?] trumpet (borrowed from English ’band’).
baan /baan/ [baan] HH tv: sharpen (pl. of ban).
baan /baan/ [baan] LL tv: join a society, undergo the initiation for a society (pl. of
ban).
baan - /baa�/ [baaN] LL tv: become tight, become close, dense (esp of cloth or bush);
become thick.
baan - a /baa�a/ [baaNa] LLH tv: refer to; criticize, back-bite, talk about behind someones
back.
baan - a /baa�a/ [baaNa] LLH tv: divide (pl. of baka).
baat /baat/ [baat] HH iv: become thick; become dirty (pl. of bat).
baat /baat/ [baat] LL tv: count; reckon esteem (pl. of bat).
baba /baba/ [baba] HH iv: become in need of; get into straits about (refer to a chronic
or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits.
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