Ibibio English

[LLL] noun God, god

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun town, village

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

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[HHH] noun shoulder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun crying, weeping

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive find and keep

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[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive fail to show appreciation, criticize what has been done for one

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become rotten (esp. of edible things), spoil (of improperly dried fish, it gets mould on it), sour

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[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

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[H] verb, transitive bite

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[L] verb, transitive send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun monkey

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[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

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[LL] noun rectum, piles (also used as a curse).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

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[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun debt

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[LHL] noun coal tar

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[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

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[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

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

[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leaf (gen term esp for leaves which are not eaten)

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[HH] noun periwinkle

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[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

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[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a shoot (esp. referes to the shoot of a a yam stored in the yam marn prior to planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[HD] adverb also, too

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

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

[HF] noun horn of animal

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

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

[LH] numeral third, three

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

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

[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)

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

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

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LHLL] noun rice

[LL] noun grave

[LH] noun the second-born son

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HF] noun house

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

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

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[HF] noun noise

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask