Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kind, sort, type, lineage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective all, every

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun a young man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun clan chief

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] quantifier other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun top, apex

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun ball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb 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

[LL] verb, transitive dip, steep, soak

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive eat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dog.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun red

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive lose ones temper and take some action (decide to do something or become stubborn), act in a fit of anger.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive pay

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun shin

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HHL] noun a powdered vegetable mixture used in juju sacrifices

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

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

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

[HL] noun sixpence

[LLH] verb, transitive to make a sign of disgust, impatience, disapproval, contempt; smack the lips over a good taste

[HH] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[L] verb, transitive grate

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

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LHH] noun middle

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[HHH] noun feast

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise