Ibibio English

[HF] noun dust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun meeting place

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun a young man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] adjective cold

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun good, genuine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun thigh; lap.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tortoise.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun river

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun debt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun crab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive judge a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive; verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neigbour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun button

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

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun knuckle

[LHH] noun mockery

[LLH] noun basket

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

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[LLHL] noun a kind of edible snail, small with a lightweight shell

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[LHH] noun a shrine

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HL] noun sixpence

[HH] verb, intransitive become left over, remain

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

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

[L] verb, transitive entice, lure, bribe, cajole

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

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

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[HF] noun trouble

[HH] noun weight

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[HH] verb, transitive mix, adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

[H] verb, transitive having the urge to sleep

[LL] verb, transitive steal

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