Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun crocodile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] adjective old

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[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

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[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wasp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHDH] noun left-handed person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become quiet, calm, lonely (of a place, of wind or water)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a tree with small blue skinned fruits, their green flesh is softened before eating by roasting or by immersing in hot water, the softened flesh is similar to avocado but it is slightly sour, it is customarily accompanied by roasted maize, Bush butter tree

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun eulogy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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

[LH] noun; adjective farm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cost

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] 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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

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 (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun today

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

[LL] pronoun my

[HHH] noun fart

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LH] noun fear

[LH] noun my father

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[H] pronoun what, who which

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

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

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

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[HF] noun trouble

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

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

[LF] noun a ditch containing water, a large pit, dam

[HF] noun skill, talent

[HH] noun the sun

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[H] noun child, offspring