Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun cannon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

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[HF] noun squirrel

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun lizard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun challenge, dare; resolution

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun top, apex

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive call, shout (at), scream (at), cry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun mother.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun sacred place where family heirlooms are kept; archive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] number one hundred.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fail to come about, fail to materialize; fail to carry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

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

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become born

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wing

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[HHH] noun weeds, grass

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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

[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

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

[H.HL] noun sandfly

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[HHF] noun eczema

[LLL] adverb not even

[LLLH] noun business

[HHH] noun something rotten

[LH] noun fear

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[HF] noun the gums

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[HL] noun shirt

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

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

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[LHLL] noun rice

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LLH] noun ability

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[HF] adverb slow, with care

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

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[LL] verb, transitive cook a very small quantity of rich afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface