Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stew, soup

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[LHL] adjective whole, complete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] adjective cold

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[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun pawpaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

verb, transitive become smooth

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[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun eulogy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

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

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun; adjective farm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun debt

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[LHH] noun crab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive judge a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pay

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun European

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[LHF] noun tree, big/heavy log of wood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[HHH HL] noun shin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun warm

[HH] verb, transitive frown, screw up the face, have an unhappy, disgusted, distasteful or disapproving look on the face

[HD] adverb also, too

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun horn of animal

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

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

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[HL] noun sixpence

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

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hop, jump; jump over; abate, let up (pl. of tamma)

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[HD] noun grandfather

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[HH] noun rope

[HH] adjective new

[HF] noun smell, odor

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

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LLL] numeral four

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

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

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

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

[HL] adverb yet, then

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret