Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun king

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun water buffalo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] become broken, break(of its own accord)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun headtie

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tip toe around stealthily, pussy-foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun knee.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun flying squirrel.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

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

[HHH] noun firewood.

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

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a set of five yams

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun smallpox

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive crow, of a cock (plural form of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a heavy round object such as a coconut or palm fruit cluster when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

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

[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

[HF] noun cockroach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun grace, favour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHD] noun groundnut

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] interjection no

[LL] conjunction and, with

[LHH] noun calamity

[LH] interrogative what

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[LL] noun place

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[LH] verb, transitive squeeze (a fruit, a wet cloth). press (oil from ayop), milk

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

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

[H] pronoun what, who which

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[LL] verb, transitive take fire, carry fire

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

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

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

[LL] noun grave

[HHH] noun a whistle

[LL] noun your mother

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[HH] noun ear

[LLL] noun beauty

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

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