Ibibio English

[HF HL] noun pimple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun root

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cloth, clothes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

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

[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun firewood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a cripple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun; adjective farm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive vomit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interj. what

[LLLL] noun error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

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

[HHF] noun eczema

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LHH] noun mockery

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[LLL] noun intestines

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LL] verb, intransitive crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[LLHL] noun a kind of edible snail, small with a lightweight shell

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

[HF] noun trouble

[HF] noun strength

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[LH] noun fishing spear

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[LLH] noun spider web

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[HH] noun childhood

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)