Ibibio English

[LH] noun meeting place

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun moon, month

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun basket

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[LLL] noun hut, improvised temporary shelter(in the bush or at the fishing ponds)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun sacred place where family heirlooms are kept; archive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun court, council meeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

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

[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neigbour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bend, incline (a stick, a part of the body)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun scar

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] conj. so, so that

[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LH] numeral third, three

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

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

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[LL] verb, transitive take fire, carry fire

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[H] verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[F] noun tea

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HH] noun weavil

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[HH] noun the sun

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[LHH] noun needle

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

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

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)