Ibibio English

[LLL] noun a kind of yam formerly only planted by women, water yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun water buffalo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun whisper

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun horn, trumpet

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun slave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun chameleon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun ball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive stand, shine (of sun or moon)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a bundle of ten, twenty, fifty, etc..

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

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

[HF] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun thief; theft

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun year

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] transitive verb remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves).

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: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

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

[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] interj. what

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

[LLL] adverb not even

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

[HH] noun descendants

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[HF] noun the gums

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

[LLH] noun basket

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

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

[HH] verb, intransitive talk in an angry, high-piched voice; ideophone: sound of a frightened, wounded dog

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[HH] noun ear

[LHH] noun needle

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[HH] verb, transitive mix, adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

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

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness