Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun python

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the sediment which sinks to the bottom of the pot when palm oil is boiled after being extracted from the fruit, dregs

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a bundle of ten, twenty, fifty, etc..

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tomach; a bag-like object esp one containing air; a musical instrument of the accordian type; a kind of thumb piano made of wood of calabash with metal keys; a play in which the thumb piano is used.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun whirlwind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun firewood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun cooking hearth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun nose

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive crow (of a cock).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun scar, welt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun grace, favour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[LLLLH HLL] noun a pool of water

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H.HL] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective small

[HL] interj. what

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[HLLH] noun ant

[LLL] noun intestines

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LH] noun oyster

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[L] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive to be able to, know how to, master

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

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

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

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

[HH] verb, intransitive become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

[HH] noun rope

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[LH] noun guest, visitor

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

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

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LLL] noun beauty

[L] verb, transitive write

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

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

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop