Ibibio English

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the first wife

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun okra, okro

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun person, human being; someone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

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[HL] noun headtie

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become quiet, calm, lonely (of a place, of wind or water)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun mother.

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[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun calabash (gen term), Lagenaria vulgaris (Dalziel); a calabash container; any small container to drink from; a standard measure (about a cup) for gari, rice, beans.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun impotent man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive lose ones temper and take some action (decide to do something or become stubborn), act in a fit of anger.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

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

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] conj. so, so that

[LHL] interjection no

[LHL] adjective without response

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[LLL] adverb not even

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HHH] noun postherd

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[HH] noun a women’s society

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LLH] noun basket

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HHF] noun hiccup

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

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

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[LH] conj even if, not even if

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

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

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[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

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LH] noun birth mark

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HLL] adverb completely

[LF] noun a ditch containing water, a large pit, dam

[LH] noun cssave fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[LL] noun quarrel

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell