Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun basket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

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

[HH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive resemble, appear to, seem to, seem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive eat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun porcupine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun whirlwind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun race

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[L] verb, intransitive become pleasant, enjoyable, sweet

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[HHHH] noun eternity

[HHHH HL] noun wrist watch

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

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

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[H] verb, intransitive become stupid, retarded

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LHH] noun slap

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HF] noun lot, quantity, instance of

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[HHHH] noun blood

[LHL] numeral five

[LLH] noun spider web

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

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

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[LL] verb, transitive warm food, reheat afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)