Ibibio English

[LLL] noun a kind of yam formerly only planted by women, water yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective all, every

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the first wife

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun a strong wind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive resemble, appear to, seem to, seem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive break

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fierce, brave, valiant, dare, become hot, burn (of pepper), become sarp, function work (of medicine, magic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive to lose, throw away

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive hide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun axe.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tortoise.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun; adjective farm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun coal tar

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] 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).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LL] verb, transitive knock

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun weeds, grass

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH HLL] noun a pool of water

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[LL] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms), grope

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HD] adverb also, too

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[LLL] adverb not even

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[LLL] noun intestines

[LLL] noun a kind of basket used for catching fish or crabs, small ones are made of palm fronds, large ones of cane

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LH] noun my father

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

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[LLL] noun mist, fog

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

[LF] noun my grandmother

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[LLH] verb, transitive to make a sign of disgust, impatience, disapproval, contempt; smack the lips over a good taste

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LHL] noun pigeon

[HDH] noun some

[LLL] noun room

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[LL] noun quarrel

[L] verb, transitive write

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)