Ibibio English

[LLL] noun God, god

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stew, soup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun crocodile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun okra, okro

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of reed; a sleeping mat woven from reed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive be sated, make overfull (from eating).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

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

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive cover, close with a cover or lid; heap up

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun European

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun banana

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun scar, welt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLF] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[HHH] noun fart

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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 picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[LHH] noun scum

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

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

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

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

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

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

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

[F] noun tea

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[L] verb, transitive grate

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

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

[LL] noun grave

[HH] noun friend

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[LL] noun a game of struggle

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

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[LH] noun fishhook

[LHH] noun needle

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[L] verb, transitive write

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

[HL] noun guava

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)