Ibibio English

[ LL ]

ideophone    sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLHDH ]

noun    a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLL ]

noun, adjective    cold, wet

Dialect: ndedeng

[ H ]

verb, transitive    copulate

Dialect: kung

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLL LL ]

   one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

verb, transitive    see clearly, discern

Dialect: moono

[ HH ]

verb, intransitive    become left over, remain

Dialect: sugho

[ H ]

noun    child, offspring

Dialect: yin

[ HHH ]

verb, intransitive    tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

Dialect: diaang

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, intransitive    be itchy, scratchy

[ H ]

verb, intransitive    become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[ HF ]

noun    a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    grate

Dialect: tuk

[ L ]

verb, transitive    restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[ LL ]

verb, transitive    remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Dialect: kpuk

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[ HF ]

noun    lot, quantity, instance of

[ LH ]

verb, transitive    pass, pass by, cross

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)

Dialect: bungngo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

verb, transitive    go to, go for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHH ]

noun    piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    chop

[ LH ]

noun    dew, moisture on leaves

[ HH ]

noun    the sun

Dialect: utin

[ HLHL ]

noun    red

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

noun    a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

verb, intransitive    become cooked, done(of food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

verb, transitive    disturb, stir

[ LF ]

noun    cassava fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

Dialect: ukpup

[ H ]

verb, transitive    overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

noun    dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[ L ]

verb, intransitive    become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    make a knot, tie around and knot

[ H ]

verb, transitive    roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

Dialect: kang

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

noun    thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

Dialect: ngkukim

[ LLLL ]

noun    wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLHHH ]

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLL ]

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

Dialect: ekomo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, intransitive    become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

Dialect: tongo

[ HHL ]

noun    sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LL ]

conjunction    and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHH ]

noun    mockery

[ HH ]

noun    descendants

Dialect: nnung

[ LLH ]

verb, transitive    cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

Dialect: kaanga

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHHH ]

verb, transitive    deceive

Dialect: biaanga

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

Dialect: fim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

noun    dog.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LL ]

noun    millipede.

Dialect: etim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

verb, intransitive    come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

Dialect: soo

[ LHLL ]

noun    rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLLH ]

verb, intransitive    become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HF ]

adjective    good, genuine

[ HH ]

noun    stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Dialect: ifim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

verb, transitive    give (pl. of nọ)

Dialect: noongo

[ LL ]

ideophone    describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

Dialect: bio

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Dialect: kpook

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

Dialect: fip

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLLL ]

noun    state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

Dialect: ibikpai

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LL ]

verb, transitive    spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

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)

Dialect: mkpetengidim

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[ 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

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

Dialect: sitte

[ HH ]

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

Dialect: kpangnga

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[ HH ]

number    twenty.

Dialect: edip

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LL ]

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

[ HH ]

noun    road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

Dialect: usung

[ HHL ]

noun    the first shoost of a plant to come up.

Dialect: emine

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHH ]

adjective    many, much

Dialect: umiang

[ LLL ]

noun    civet cat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

noun    picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HL ]

noun    address form for father, grandfather, old man

[ LH ]

noun    fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

noun    the first-born son

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HDH ]

quantitative    other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HF ]

noun    a kind of fish, good to eat.

Dialect: edeng

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

verb, transitive    remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[ LHHL ]

noun    rheumatism.

Dialect: ewangko

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HF ]

noun    day, twenty-four hours

[ HH ]

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

Dialect: furo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LF LL ]

noun    state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

[ L ]

verb, intransitive    become able, know how; tv surpass, excel (used in making com- parisons), triumph over, beat (win)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[ HHH ]

noun    feast

Dialect: usoro

[ H ]

ideophone    sound of splashing water

[ HF ]

noun    vein, artery, tendon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HF HL ]

noun    pimple

Dialect: abong

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    cajole, entice, lure.

Dialect: kpeek

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    lick, lick off

Dialect: ngweem

[ H ]

prep.    of time, place, cause, manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HL ]

noun    sixpence

[ HF ]

noun    vein (esp. in the arm)

Dialect: ndit

[ H ]

verb, transitive    cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Dialect: fuk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

verb, intransitive    become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

Dialect: ngwanga

[ HHL ]

noun    wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

ideophone    sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

Dialect: kpim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, intransitive    leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

Dialect: dit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun    copulation

Dialect: ekungo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHH ]

noun    slap