Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adjective new

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

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

[H] verb, transitive break

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive tell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

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 copulation.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive hold something in the mouth or between the lips without biting down.

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 drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun laughter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun; adjective farm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun thief; theft

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun debt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

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

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive die perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive even, even if, unless, not even.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pl people

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun shin

[LL] conjunction and, with

[L] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms); grope

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[LHH] noun mockery

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

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

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[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

[LLL] noun room

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[HHH] noun feast

[LLH] noun spider web

[LLL] noun beauty

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

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[L] verb, transitive write

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface