Ibibio English

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun top, apex

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

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

[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun spear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun laughter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a cripple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a set of five yams

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[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun advice

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[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

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[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive copulate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[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

[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLH] adjective sharp, brave, fierce, potent

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

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[LH] noun fear

[HL] noun knuckle

[HH] noun descendants

[LH] numeral third, three

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[L] verb, transitive sell

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

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

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

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[H] pronoun what, who which

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

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

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[LHL] noun pigeon

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LL] noun fufu, anything pounded for fufu, anything cut with the fingers from a mass and swallowed in balls along with afere (soup)

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

[HF] noun noise

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

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places