Ibibio English

[LHH] noun settler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun A sexually transmitted infection (STI) in men, involves painful swellings on the groin area that may impede walking

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun python

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

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[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive bite

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tooth.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun knee.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun greeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun parrot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun debt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun door hinge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

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

[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

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

[LL] verb, intransitive grow (of people, animals, plants, hair) (pl. of kọt [L])

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun banana

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

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[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interj. yes

[LH] conj. so, so that

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[L] verb, transitive blind

[H] verb, transitive injure, wound

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

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

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[HLHH] noun stain

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

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LL] noun my mother

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[LH] noun oyster

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

[L] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive to be able to, know how to, master

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

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

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

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

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

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LL] noun second-born daughter

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

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[HH] noun the sun

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[H] verb, transitive suck

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

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise