Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

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[HHH] noun comb

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[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun horn, trumpet

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive break

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

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[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fierce, brave, valiant, dare, become hot, burn (of pepper), become sarp, function work (of medicine, magic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a bundle of ten, twenty, fifty, etc..

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun mother.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

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[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

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[LH] adjective big

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[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

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[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

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

[LLL] noun young men, youths

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun button

[LLH] noun warm

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[HHH] noun something rotten

[L] verb, intransitive become pleasant, enjoyable, sweet

[HH] noun descendants

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[HHL] noun a powdered vegetable mixture used in juju sacrifices

[LL] noun lies

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

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

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[HH] verb, intransitive shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

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

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

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

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

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

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[LHL] noun pigeon

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[HF] noun strength, force, power

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

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[LHH] noun needle

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[H] noun child, offspring

[H] verb, transitive attach, put together, fasten, lock, hang (from a point, or curtains, tie on so that it may hang)