Ibibio English

[HHH] noun hunger

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

[HF] noun slave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun python

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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

[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive father a child

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive hide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun time

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun river

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun debt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun face, front, future (also eko iso)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun door hinge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun young men, youths

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

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 rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive knock, tap

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 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

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun weeds, grass

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun pity, sympathy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive blind

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[LH] noun mother, grandmother, old woman (address or referent)

[HF] noun the gums

[HH] noun face, front, future

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

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[HH] verb, intransitive become sweet, delicious, tasty, enjoyable (of food or drink only)

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[LHH] noun a shrine

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

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

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[HL] noun sixpence

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[HH] verb, intransitive become sandy

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

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[LLL] noun room

[HF] noun trouble

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[HH] noun oppression

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

[LH] noun fishhook

[LLL] noun beauty

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

[L] verb, transitive write

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)

[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell