Ibibio English

[HDH] noun chief, lord (traditional or religious)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun electric fish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun slave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun chin.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun walking stick.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dog.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

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

[HLHL] noun red

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of firewood breaking; sound of corn cracking as it roasts.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

[HHH] verb, transitive push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive overlap, cross, heap, pile on top of; arrange, set up, prepare for use

[LL] verb, transitive knock

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun cheek

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun button

[LL] pronoun my

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[LL] conjunction and, with

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

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

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[LL] conjunction with, and

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[HF] noun the gums

[LH] noun my father

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[L] verb, transitive sell

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LH] noun birth mark

[LH] noun the second-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[HF] noun soul, spirit (of a living person)

[HHHH] noun blood

[LLL] noun universe

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[HH] noun sand on the shore

[LH] noun fishhook

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[HL] noun guava

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive digest

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

[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)