Ibibio English

[LHL] adjective whole, complete

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

[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

verb, transitive become smooth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

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 phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun axe.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun saliva.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fire.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun gonorrhea.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun; adjective farm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a kind of dance performed in the moonlight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

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] noun side, edge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb here.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] adjective small

[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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[LLL] adverb not even

[HLHH] noun stain

[LH] noun my father

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[LL] noun children, young of animals

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

[HH] noun the young of an animal

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

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

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

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[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 block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

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

[H] verb, transitive eject, hurl, throw, shoot, sting

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[HDH] noun some

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

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

[HF] noun strength

[LHH] noun slap

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

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[LLL] noun universe

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[HH] noun the sun

[LL] noun quarrel

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

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

[H] verb, transitive suck

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

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