Ibibio English

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun mosquito

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive fail to show appreciation, criticize what has been done for one

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun good, genuine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun river

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun smallpox

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun door hinge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive walk on the balls of the feet, walk on tiptoe

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

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 plead, plead with, entreat.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

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

[HLHH] noun stain

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

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

[HF] noun the gums

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HHH] noun water

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[H] pronoun what, who which

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[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

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LH] noun calamity

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] noun weavil

[LHH] noun middle

[HF] noun house

[LL] noun your mother

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

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LHL] noun rice

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell