Uyo Ibibio Dictionary - Computational Linguistics and Spoken ...

Uyo–Bielefeld Ibibio Dictionary (Urua, Ekpenyong, Gibbon)
nyi.n /nj�n/ [njIn] HL n: [Eng engine].
nyo.o. /nj��/ [njOO] LHL n: a kind of imported salt fish, herring.
nyo.o. /nj��/ [njOO] LLH n: jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning (esp at a serious
time).
nyot /njot/ [njot] HF n: a plant with round seeds like the size of a golf ball, the seeds
are used for games and for yoyos; a particular game in which a kind of spinning top is
hit; a very short person (he seems to roll along).
nyaa / j aa/ [Jaa] LL ideo: sound of oil dropped in the fire.
nyaak / j aak/ [Jaak] HL ideo: sound made by pulling apart things that are stuck
together with a liquid or semi-liquid substance; sound made by pulling ones foot out of
mud or dung.
nyaam / j aam/ [Jaam] HH ideo: sound of plantain frying in oil.
nyaam / j aam/ [Jaam] LL tv: sell (pl. of Jam).
nyaan / j aan/ [Jaan] LL tv, iv: stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; iv stick
out, extend (var. Janna (LH); pl. of Jan).
nyaan - a / j aa�a/ [JaaNa] HHH tv: help, save; struggle for something (as two people
struggle for a piece of land they both want), struggle with (physically).
nyagha / j a�a/ [JaRa] HH ideo: sound made by a rotten palm branch when it falls to
the ground, sound made by a cat or a light-weight person landing from a jump (all three
land with very light weight).
nyagha / j a�a/ [JaRa] HH iv: be itchy, scratchy.
nyai / j ai/ [Jai] HH iv, tv: fart.
nyai / j ai/ [Jai] LL : sound of oil dropped in the fire.
nyak / j ak/ [Jak] H ideo: sound of eating a cucumber, a wormy yam.
nyam / j am/ [Jam] L tv: sell.
nyama / j ama/ [Jama] HL iv: become scarce, in demand (from the sellers point of
view).
nyamma / j amma/ [Jamma] LH tv: singe.
nyamma / j amma/ [Jamma] LH iv: verbal aggression.
nyan / j an/ [Jan] L tv: stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; iv stick out, extend.
nyan - / j a�/ [JaN] L ideo: sound of the clanging of metal.
nyanna / j anna/ [Janna] LH tv, iv: stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; iv
stick out, extend.
nyan - n - a / j a��a/ [JaNNa] LH iv: become spread out, stretched out, stick out; be
aggressive.
nyau / j au/ [Jau] HH ideo: sound of something frying in oil.
nyeen / j een/ [Jeen] LL iv: become spread all over, as liquid spreading all over the floor.
nyeen - / j ee�/ [JeeN] LL iv, tv: shake, as in earthquake (pl. of JeN ).
nyeen - / j ee�/ [JeeN] LL iv: become greedy (pl. of JeN ).
nyeen - e / j ee�e/ [JeeNe] LLH iv: sway (as a tree in the wind) shake as a bottle on the
shelf when a heavy truck goes by, as flesh when a person moves).
nyeghe / j e�e/ [JeRe] LH iv: shake (of flesh, of a cloth which is being shaken out).
nyek / j ek/ [Jek] L iv: shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth
flapping in the wind; tremble, move about.
nyen - / j e�/ [JeN] L LL iv: become greedy.
nyen - / j e�/ [JeN] L iv, tv: shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth
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