Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun basket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun chin.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tooth.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun knee.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun copulation.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

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

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun gonorrhea.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive knock

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun weeds, grass

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive choose, select

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LHL] adjective without response

[H] verb, transitive injure, wound

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

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

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[HL] noun shirt

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[H] verb, intransitive become gently, mild (of disposition, weather); adverb: quietly, safely

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LL] noun grave

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHF] noun third-born son

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HF] noun house

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LH] noun your father

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

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms