Ibibio English

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun dust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun chief, lord (traditional or religious)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] quantifier other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wasp

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[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off(ripe or dead fruit), fall out(of hair)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive remove from the embers what has been roasting there (plural of dappa)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive come

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive bite

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the back (anat).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun court, council meeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun laughter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun young men, youths

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive scrape, scrape off, shave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interjection please

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun brain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[LLL] noun a kind of small green squash, curcurbita pepo

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Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[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

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

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

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

[F] noun tea

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[HH] noun rope

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

[LH] noun fishhook

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[HH] verb, transitive mix, adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

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

[L] verb, transitive kill

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark