Uyo Ibibio Dictionary - Computational Linguistics and Spoken ...

Uyo–Bielefeld Ibibio Dictionary (Urua, Ekpenyong, Gibbon)
daa /daa/ [daa] HH iv: sleep (var. daija).
daagha /daa�a/ [daaRa] HHH tv: stand something upright.
daagha /daa�a/ [daaRa] HHH iv, tv: become stuck, not progress, not get resolved (of
an issue).
daak /daak / [daak ] LL tv: put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping
liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof.
daam /daam/ [daam] LL tv: remove from the embers what has been roasting there (pl.
of dappa).
daama /daama/ [daama] LLH tv: remove from the embers what has been roasting there
(pl. of dappa).
daan /daan/ [daan] LL tv: dye or make brown, yellow, reddish.
daana /daana/ [daana] LLH iv: become brown, reddish.
daan - a /daa�a/ [daaNa] LLH tv: put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch
dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof (pl. of daak).
daan - a /daa�a/ [daaNa] LLH iv, tv: set off, depart, leave, move away, go away; get up
(pl. of dakka).
daap /daap/ [daap] LL tv: remove from the embers what has been roasting there (var.
of daama).
daara /daara/ [daara] HHH iv: rejoice, become happy.
daara /daara/ [daara] LLH tv: rinse.
daat /daat/ [daat] LL iv: ripen, become ripe, red (pl. of dat).
daat /daat/ [daat] HH v: take, pick up, get (a small or medium sized object); use, treat,
regard (pl. of dat).
dai /dai/ [dai] HH tv: lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft or liquid
with a spoon or fingers.
dai /dai/ [dai] LL tv: cut oil palm fruit from the cluster.
dak /dak/ [dak] L iv: do previously (in past tense); do early, become early.
dakka /dakka / [dakka ] LH iv: set off, depart, leave, move away, go away; get up.
damma /damma/ [damma] HH iv: become crazy, mad, become wild, troublesome (of a
child).
dan - /da�/ [daN] L iv: stay over-night, spend the night (var. daNa).
dana /dana / [dana ] LH iv: become brown, reddish.
dan - a /da�a/ [daNa] LH : order the night before in order to have the next day, book
overnight, contact to buy at a certain time (esp palm wine, palm wine is generally bought
in the morning when it is fresh).
dan - a /da�a/ [daNa] HH conj : when, whenever, while (var. naNa).
dan - a /da�a/ [daNa] LH iv: stay over-night, spend the night.
dan - a /da�a/ [daNa] HH aj : all (as in all the time or the whole time, all the while), the
whole, emphatic.
dat /dat / [dat ] H tv: take, pick up, get (a small or medium sized object); use, treat,
regard.
dat /dat / [dat ] L iv: ripen, become ripe, red.
daiya /daija/ [daija] HH iv: sleep (var. daa).
de /de/ [de] L conj : and, with.
debe /debe/ [debe] LH iv: fall in drops, rain (var. dep).
deede /deede/ [deede] LH iv, tv: become spread all over; overflow (of water, sand, weeds,
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