Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LD] adjective first

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun chameleon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive sharpen

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

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

[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

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

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

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

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun whirlwind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun belly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun advice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive copulate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[LH] noun today

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun my

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[HLLH] noun ant

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[HH] noun sand

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[L] verb, intransitive shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth flapping in the wind; tremble, move about)

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

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

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

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

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

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

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[H] verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hang down; weigh down, lower (as wet clothes lower a line or heavy fruits on a branch)

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[LH] noun your father

[LHH] noun needle

[LLL] noun beauty

[HH] noun childhood

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