Ibibio English

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun cat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun cannon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun root

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun basket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive bite

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun walking stick.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun divination; a society devoted to divining, fortune telling.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun debt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun crab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun year

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun door hinge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

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

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun shin

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LH] noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)

[LH] interrogative what

[LL] noun place

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

[LHH] noun clan chief

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

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[HH] verb, intransitive shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

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

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

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

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

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

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

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

[LH] noun birth mark

[HF] noun house

[LL] noun a game of struggle

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

[LLL] noun universe

[LHL] noun rice

[LH] numeral three

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[HF] noun noise

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm

[H] noun child, offspring