Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective all, every

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun python

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun chin.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tooth.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun spear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a cripple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun door hinge

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, transitive pierce, stab, sew

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLH, LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge bag of flour, it falls with a thud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LL] noun lies

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[LLHL] noun a kind of edible snail, small with a lightweight shell

[HHH] noun water

[HH] noun weeds, grass

[HH] verb, transitive look at

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[HL] noun shirt

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

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[HH] verb, intransitive become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[HH] noun weight

[HF] noun strength

[LH] noun the second-born son

[HHH] noun a whistle

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HH] noun oppression

[HF] noun house

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LH] noun fishhook

[LLL] noun beauty

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret

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

[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise