Ibibio English

[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun A sexually transmitted infection (STI) in men, involves painful swellings on the groin area that may impede walking

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

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

[LH] verb, intransitive belch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun pawpaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number ten

(Igbo) iri

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun mother.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun toad

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun word, language, talk; matter, palaver (difficulty, trouble, verbal conflict, gathering for negotiation or decision).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun young men, youths

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp. of the ground or of something which should be flat)

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

[H] verb, intransitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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 clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LL] noun regret

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a shoot (esp. referes to the shoot of a a yam stored in the yam marn prior to planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] conj. so, so that

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

[LLL] noun, adjective cold, wet

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[LL] conjunction with, and

[LLLH] noun business

[LLL] noun a kind of basket used for catching fish or crabs, small ones are made of palm fronds, large ones of cane

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[HHF] noun hiccup

[LHH] noun clan chief

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[HH] verb, intransitive shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

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

[L] verb, intransitive be small

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

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[H] verb, transitive eject, hurl, throw, shoot, sting

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[LH] verb, intransitive become stuck into, pinned

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LL] noun your mother

[HLL] adverb completely

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

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[LL] noun quarrel

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

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

[L] verb, transitive kill

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

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)