Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun root

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective whole, complete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wasp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a cripple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun advice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun impotent man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cost

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive lose ones temper and take some action (decide to do something or become stubborn), act in a fit of anger.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pay

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive greet, thank, congragulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LL] pronoun my

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[HLHH] noun stain

[LHH] noun scum

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

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

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

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

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

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

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

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

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[HD] noun grandfather

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[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

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LLL] noun room

[LF] noun your husband

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HH] noun oppression

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LHL] numeral five

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[HL] noun guava

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)