Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of yam formerly only planted by women, water yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun forest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LD] adjective first

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive break

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun spear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a set of five yams

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun nose

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive pay

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge bag of flour, it falls with a thud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun side, edge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun today

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] conjunction with, and

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

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

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HHH] adjective new

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[LHH] noun mockery

[HH] noun sand

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LH] noun my father

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[LLH] noun basket

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

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] noun weeds, grass

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

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

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

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

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)