Ibibio English

[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off(ripe or dead fruit), fall out(of hair)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive come

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun monkey

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

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[LLL] noun world.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

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[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun smallpox

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[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; ideophone blink w anjen eye; describes something that flickers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become big

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LL] verb, transitive knock

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

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

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] pronoun my

[HHH] noun water

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

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

[LH] noun my father

[HF] adjective good, genuine

[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

[LL] noun place

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

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

[LLLL] noun rust

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[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

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

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

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

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

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

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

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

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

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LH] noun your father

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[HF] noun noise

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)