Ibibio English

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun moon, month

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the first-born son

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the first wife

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHDH] noun left-handed person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive stand

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive even, even if, unless, not even.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

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.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become accustomed to, familiar with, associated with;

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive blind

[H] verb, transitive injure, wound

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[LH] noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)

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

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[HH] verb, intransitive talk in an angry, high-piched voice; ideophone: sound of a frightened, wounded dog

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[HL] noun sixpence

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

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

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[HF] noun mortar

[HLL] adverb completely

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

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

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight