Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun chief, lord (traditional or religious)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun comb

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun clan chief

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun person, human being; someone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun saliva.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

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

[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

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

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

[HHL] noun wing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive choose, select

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

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

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

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

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] noun warm

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[L] verb, transitive blind

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

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[HF] noun the gums

[HLL] noun a children’s running and hiding game played by moonlight

[LL] conjunction where

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[L] verb, intransitive shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth flapping in the wind; tremble, move about)

[LLLL] noun rust

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

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

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

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[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

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

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

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

[LH] noun calamity

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[HH] noun weavil

[HH] noun oppression

[LL] noun your mother

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[LH] noun fishhook

[HHL] noun your kinsman

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark