Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun comb

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun horn, trumpet

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun chameleon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive break (a long thin object such as a stick or bone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

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

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cricket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun whirlwind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] transitive verb remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive even, even if, unless, not even.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun penis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun today

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[LHH] noun a shrine

[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

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

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

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[HH] noun childhood

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

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms