Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun cat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adjective new

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun horn, trumpet

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun a young man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun table

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun clan chief

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

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[H] verb, transitive break

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[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive eat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive hide

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[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun belly

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[LH] noun spoon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun crab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

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[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp of the ground or of something which should be flat)

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

[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

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

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

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

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[LHH] noun mockery

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

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

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

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

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

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

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LL] noun grave

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HH] noun oppression

[HF] noun a kind of tree with soft wood, probably Alstonia congensis (Dalziel)

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

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