Ibibio English

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun forest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] quantifier other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive beg, beg for; plead with, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive father a child

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive bite

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive swoosh, shake, rinse water around in the mouth or bottle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun porcupine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun stream.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun debt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of raw maize being pounded.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun thick porridge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun warm

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

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

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[HLL] noun shadow

[HH] noun descendants

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[HD] adverb also

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

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

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[HH] noun weeds, grass

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

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

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[H] verb, transitive swell, rise as dough

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[HH] noun oppression

[HHHH] noun a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LHH] noun needle

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[H] verb, transitive suck

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast