Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun path in the bush

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun lizard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] quantifier other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun hut, improvised temporary shelter(in the bush or at the fishing ponds)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive sharpen

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive bite

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun firewood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun coal tar

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun impotent man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp of the ground or of something which should be flat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

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 plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun grace, favour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms), grope

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[HD] adverb also, too

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

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

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HF] noun horn of animal

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[HFHF] noun smallpox

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

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[HH] noun a women’s society

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[HH] verb, intransitive become sweet, delicious, tasty, enjoyable (of food or drink only)

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[HL] noun shilling

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[HF] noun trouble

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[HH] adjective new

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

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[LL] noun life, destiny, universe, creation

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[HH] noun childhood

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate