Ibibio English

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HL] noun pimple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adjective new

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[HLHL] noun lungs

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun crocodile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective whole, complete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[H] verb, transitive bite

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun court, council meeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a calabash for serving palm wine, it has a filter at its mouth to hold back the dregs.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun advice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive walk on the balls of the feet, walk on tiptoe

[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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 cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[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

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

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

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

[LH] noun my father

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

[LL] noun place

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[LL] verb, intransitive crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LF] noun lead (metal)

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

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[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)

[HH] verb, intransitive become left over, remain

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

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LH] noun the second-born son

[HH] adjective new

[HH] noun oppression

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

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

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LH] noun fishhook

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance