Ibibio English

[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun yawn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective whole, complete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective all, every

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LD] adjective first

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive become resistant, obstinate (of a person, an animal); become difficult (of work, a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive; verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

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

[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun shin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun button

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[HHH] noun water

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun race, competition

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

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

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[HH] noun a women’s society

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[LHH] noun a shrine

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[HH] verb, intransitive become left over, remain

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[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

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LHH] noun middle

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

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LHL] numeral five

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir