Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun rice

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[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

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[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun a young man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun person, human being; someone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive stand, shine (of sun or moon)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun knee.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun good, genuine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun red

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[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun year

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

[LLH, LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

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[LH] noun grace, favour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective without response

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[HH] noun descendants

[LHH] noun mockery

[LH] noun my father

[LH] noun my father

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[LF] noun my grandmother

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

[H] verb, intransitive become gently, mild (of disposition, weather); adverb: quietly, safely

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

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

[LLL] noun room

[LL] noun room

[LF] noun your husband

[LHF] noun third-born son

[HF] noun house

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[HHH] noun feast

[HH] noun childhood

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)