Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun whisper

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun ball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

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

[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive bite

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become untidy and wet (of a messy wet animal), become wet, become untidy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun porcupine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun millipede.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

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[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

[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cost

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] 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).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

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

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

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

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LHH] noun mockery

[LH] noun a rattle, musical instrument filled with seeds or pebbles which is shaken; strings of seeds worn around ankles and wrists to make noise when dancing

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

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

[L] verb, transitive sell

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[LH] verb, transitive squeeze (a fruit, a wet cloth). press (oil from ayop), milk

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

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

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

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

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

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[L] verb, transitive entice, lure, bribe, cajole

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

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

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[LH] noun calamity

[LL] noun your mother

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

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

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

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

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

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop