Ibibio English

[HF] noun dust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun comb

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the sediment which sinks to the bottom of the pot when palm oil is boiled after being extracted from the fruit, dregs

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive hide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun civet cat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun greeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun eulogy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun hat, cap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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, intransitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp. of the ground or of something which should be flat)

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

[HH] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood) (pl. of kpaN)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive pay attention (used with utON, as in a kpaN utON, listen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun banana

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun race

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun today

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective small

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH HLL] noun a pool of water

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interj. what

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[L] verb, transitive blind

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

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

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LL] noun my mother

[HD] adverb also

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[H] verb, transitive eject, hurl, throw, shoot, sting

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[HF] noun trouble

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LL] noun fufu, anything pounded for fufu, anything cut with the fingers from a mass and swallowed in balls along with afere (soup)

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[L] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose