Ibibio English

[LLL] noun God, god

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun king

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun comb

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective all, every

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the first wife

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun pawpaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun ball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive dip, steep, soak

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive bite

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the back (anat).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun mother.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun time

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a kind of dance performed in the moonlight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive pay

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[LH] noun the side of the face from temple to jaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective small

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[LLL] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[LHH] noun calamity

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

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LH] noun my father

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

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

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HHH] noun vision, trance, revelation

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

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

[H] pronoun what, who which

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[HH] verb, intransitive walk in a slow, lazy, sloppy, or stealthy manner

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[H] verb, intransitive originate, come from

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

[HDH] noun some

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[LHH] adjective empty, wasted, devoid of purpose

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[LL] verb, transitive warm food, reheat afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)