Uyo Ibibio Dictionary - Computational Linguistics and Spoken ...

Uyo–Bielefeld Ibibio Dictionary (Urua, Ekpenyong, Gibbon)
fia /fia/ [fia] HH iv: become white.
fian - a /fia�a/ [fiaNa] HHHH tv, iv: 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).
fian - a /fia�a/ [fiaNa] LLLH tv: blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).
fiai /fiai/ [fiai] LLL ideo: sound made by cars passing each other at high speed.
fiak /fiak/ [fiak] HH tv: turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always
followed by another verb).
fiaka /fiaka/ [fiaka] HHH tv: 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).
fiara /fiara / [fiara ] LLH tv: blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).
fiat /fiat/ [fiat] LL tv: spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva) see fiara; cf kOkO.
fi.be /f�be/ [fIbe] LH iv: become threadbare spotted with bald places (of something that
had nap or hair).
fi.be /f�be/ [fIbe] LL tv: hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting
down .
fi.be /f�be/ [fIbe] HH iv: become jealous, envious often.
fien /fien/ [fien] HL obj pron: you (sg).
fi.ghe /f��e/ [fIRe] HH iv: become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.
fi.ppe /f�ppe/ [fIppe] HHH tv: remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or
holding there.
fiim /fiim/ [fiim] HH iv: shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).
fiim /fiim/ [fiim] HH tv: suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle
shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip
through a straw.
fiime /fiime/ [fiime] HHH tv: torture.
fiip /fiip/ [fiip] HH tv: suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle
shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip
through a straw.
fi.k /f�k/ [fIk] H tv: press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some
speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.
fi.k /f�k/ [fIk] H iv, tv: become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.
fi.kke /f�kke/ [fIkke] HH tv: rev of fiik and fik, remove pressure, stop pressing down see
fige.
fim /fim/ [fim] L tv: fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.
fi.me /f�me/ [fIme] LH iv: blow (of wind, of cloth flapping in the breeze); fig become
unstable, unsteady (of a persons character or behaviour).
fi.mme /f�mme/ [fImme] LH iv: stagger, get off balance; tv trim (quickly, as a bush),
slash down (var. fImmO).
fi.mmo. /f�mm�/ [fImmO] LH iv, tv: stagger, get off balance; tv trim (quickly, as a bush),
slash down (var. fImme).
fi.na /f�na/ [fIna] HH tv: bother, harass, worry.
fi.re /f�re/ [fIre] LLH tv: forget.
fi.no. /f�n�/ [fInO] HH tv: bother, harass, worry.
fio.gho. /fi���/ [fiORO] HHH iv: become propped up, propped open, wedge, see fiOk,
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