Ibibio English

[HF] noun dust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun horn, trumpet

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cloth, clothes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] adjective old

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LD] adjective first

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[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of reed; a sleeping mat woven from reed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun pawpaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

verb, transitive become smooth

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[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH ] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive turn, twist, twist around, twist together (poss involves a more complete turn or twist than fiak); iv become twisted (of its own accord); turn (of a wheel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun belly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun; adjective farm

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[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

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[LLH, LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

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

[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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun European

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLLLH HLL] noun a pool of water

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive injure, wound

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

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

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[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

[HHH] noun postherd

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[HF] noun the gums

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HH] verb, intransitive talk in an angry, high-piched voice; ideophone: sound of a frightened, wounded dog

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

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

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[HD] noun grandfather

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[LL] noun room

[LHH] noun right (direction)

[HF] noun house

[LL] noun your mother

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness