Ibibio English

[H.HL] noun central beam of a house, it runs the length of the roof

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun settler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun water buffalo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun a strong wind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun husband

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH ] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive turn, twist, twist around, twist together (poss involves a more complete turn or twist than fiak); iv become twisted (of its own accord); turn (of a wheel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cricket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun impotent man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive stand in a relative position.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[HHHH] noun a metal, tray

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

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

[HHH] noun something rotten

[HLLH] noun ant

[LHH] noun mockery

[LH] noun a rattle, musical instrument filled with seeds or pebbles which is shaken; strings of seeds worn around ankles and wrists to make noise when dancing

[LH] noun my father

[LL] adjective small, few

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[L] verb, transitive sell

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

[HH] verb, intransitive become sweet, delicious, tasty, enjoyable (of food or drink only)

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

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

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

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

[HH] noun rope

[LL] noun your mother

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

[LHH] adjective many, much

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[LH] noun your father

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[HHL] noun your kinsman

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop