Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun clan chief

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wasp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective green

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun pawpaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun red

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive eat in tiny bits, nibble at, tear into bits, pick at (a sore).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHHH] noun [Efik] a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHDH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[LLH] noun warm

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[LHH] noun clan chief

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HHH] noun water

[HHHH] noun eternity

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[HH] verb, intransitive become sweet, delicious, tasty, enjoyable (of food or drink only)

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[HL] noun sixpence

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[HD] noun grandfather

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[LHL] noun pigeon

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

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

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)