Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun root

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] adjective old

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the first wife

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun a strong wind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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

[HH] verb, transitive break (a long thin object such as a stick or bone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive break

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become mischievous, wicked

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun spear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun mother.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive be sated, make overfull (from eating).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun smallpox

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive agree to, be willing to; run errands opt w utom message, errand, work

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] 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

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun nail (anat), claw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun pity, sympathy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH HL] noun the kernel of the unripe oil palm fruit, the shell is soft and can be broken with the teeth.

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

[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

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun fart

[LHL] interjection no

[LLL HD] noun plaintain

[LLH] verb, transitive see clearly, discern

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

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

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[LHH] noun mockery

[LH] interrogative what

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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[LLL] noun mould

[LL] adjective small, few

[HHH] verb, intransitive become melted

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (to show seriousness and thus make a child comply)

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

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

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

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

[HL] noun shilling

[H] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[LL] noun fufu, anything pounded for fufu, anything cut with the fingers from a mass and swallowed in balls along with afere (soup)

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

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