Ibibio English

[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun flesh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of yam formerly only planted by women, water yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun comb

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun priest

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

[LLL] noun wasp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive remove from the embers what has been roasting there (plural of dappa)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun eulogy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a set of five yams

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun smallpox

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[HF] noun advice

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood) (pl. of kpaN)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive vomit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun brain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun my

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

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

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

[LL] conjunction with, and

[LLL] adverb not even

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[HLLH] noun ant

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LH] noun my father

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

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (to show seriousness and thus make a child comply)

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

[LL] noun my mother

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

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

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

[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)

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

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

[LHL] noun pigeon

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[LHL] numeral five

[HH] noun ear

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface