Ibibio English

[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] adjective old

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun forest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LD] adjective first

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive father a child

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive call, shout (at), scream (at), cry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL.H] verb, transitive collect, gather, pull down tendrils or other vegetation from a tree or the side of a house; tap on the back to get a persons attention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive tell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun flying squirrel.

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

[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

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

[HHL] noun women, wives

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

[HHH] noun whirlwind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun belly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun laughter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut down, hew down (a large object); cut (a large portion) (pl. of kek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become born

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interjection please

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] noun warm

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[HD] adverb also, too

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

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

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

[LHH] noun calamity

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[LH] noun my father

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

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

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[HHF] noun hiccup

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

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[LHH] noun a shrine

[L] verb, transitive entice, lure, bribe, cajole

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

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

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LLL] noun room

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

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

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LLL] numeral four

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LLL] noun beauty

[HF] noun noise

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[H] verb, transitive having the urge to sleep

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