Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun whisper

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun headtie

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

verb, transitive become smooth

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[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tooth.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

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

[HHHH ] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive turn, twist, twist around, twist together (poss involves a more complete turn or twist than fiak); iv become twisted (of its own accord); turn (of a wheel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun belly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tail

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[LLL HL] noun door hinge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive overlap, cross, heap, pile on top of; arrange, set up, prepare for use

[LL] verb, transitive knock

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interjection please

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LL] noun regret

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] noun warm

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun common red and black lizard

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

[LLLH] noun business

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[HLLH] noun ant

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

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

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

[LL] numeral second

[LL] noun grave

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[LLL] numeral four

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[LH] numeral three

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[HL] adverb yet, then

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

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