Ibibio English

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective all, every

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective green

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun world.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun axe.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

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, intransitive become white.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun red

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun belly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun thief; theft

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

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] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive copulate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become accustomed to, familiar with, associated with;

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[LLL] noun intestines

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LL] conjunction where

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

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

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

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

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

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

[LHH] noun slap

[HHH] noun a whistle

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LL] noun your mother

[LLH] noun ability

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

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

[LLH] noun spider web

[LHH] noun needle

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

[H] verb, transitive having the urge to sleep

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

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