Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun central beam of a house, it runs the length of the roof

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stew, soup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive sharpen

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun chin.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pig.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive be sated, make overfull (from eating).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive forget.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun belly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun year

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive stand in a relative position.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive overlap, cross, heap, pile on top of; arrange, set up, prepare for use

[HH] verb, transitive greet, thank, congragulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pl people

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun brain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun skull

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interj. what

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[HL] noun knuckle

[LH] noun my father

[LH] noun my father

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[LL] noun place

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

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

[HL] noun shirt

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

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

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

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

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

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[LH] noun canoe

[LHLL] noun rice

[LL] noun grave

[HF] noun trouble

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

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

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[L] verb, transitive kill

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