Ibibio English

[LLL] noun God, god

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun slave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun crying, weeping

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun porcupine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pig.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun mother.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

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

[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive copulate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun pity, sympathy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leaf (gen term esp for leaves which are not eaten)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun scar

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective small

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

[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

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

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

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[HHH] verb, intransitive become melted

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

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

[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)

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

[LL] verb, transitive take fire, carry fire

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

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[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 the second-born son

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LL] noun your mother

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

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

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[LHL] numeral five

[HH] noun the sun

[LH] noun fishhook

[L] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[L] verb, transitive kill

[LL] verb, transitive steal