Ibibio English

[LLL] noun God, god

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun cannon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun mosquito

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun crocodile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun okra, okro

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive break

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL.H] verb, transitive collect, gather, pull down tendrils or other vegetation from a tree or the side of a house; tap on the back to get a persons attention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun chin.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pig.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

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

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun firewood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a set of five yams

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun cooking hearth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

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 (pl. of kpat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fail to come about, fail to materialize; fail to carry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

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

[H] verb, intransitive become gently, mild (of disposition, weather); adverb: quietly, safely

[HL] noun shilling

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

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

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[HH] noun weight

[LHH] noun slap

[LL] noun your mother

[LH] noun cssave fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[HHHH] noun blood

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance