Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun laughter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun advice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

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 take an enema

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

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

[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun side, edge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun my

[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[LLL] adverb not even

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

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

[HLHH] noun stain

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

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

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

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

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

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

[HL] noun shirt

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

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

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

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

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LHH] noun needle

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

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness

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