Ibibio English

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun settler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun electric fish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun crocodile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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[HH] noun the first-born son

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective green

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[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

[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun headtie

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun millipede.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun thief; theft

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become able, know how; tv surpass, excel (used in making com- parisons), triumph over, beat (win)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

[LH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive lose ones temper and take some action (decide to do something or become stubborn), act in a fit of anger.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a heavy round object such as a coconut or palm fruit cluster when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun sandfly

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

[HD] interj. yes

[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

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

[LLL] noun children, young animals (used as pl. of ayin, nyịn)

[LLL] adverb not even

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HHH] noun race, competition

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[LHH] noun scum

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HL] noun knuckle

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[HLL] noun a children’s running and hiding game played by moonlight

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HHLL] noun cornsilk, the tassel at the end of an ear of corn

[LH] verb, transitive squeeze (a fruit, a wet cloth). press (oil from ayop), milk

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[HHH] verb, transitive throw up to someone what one has done for him or what he has done to one, reproach with past deeds (var. sion̄, sioon̄)

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

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

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

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

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

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LLH] noun spider web

[HH] noun ear

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[HH] noun childhood

[L] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[HL] adverb yet, then

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[H] verb, transitive suck