Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of yam formerly only planted by women, water yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun cannon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun top, apex

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun divulge secrets, inform, tattle, betray

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive carry on the head, carry about (a worry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pig.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun knee.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun flying squirrel.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun stool (Goldie says this word is a loan from Aqua).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun European

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interjection please

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LL] noun regret

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[L] verb, transitive blind

[HH] noun dream

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

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

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LH] noun fear

[LHH] noun calamity

[HHH] noun postherd

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[LH] numeral third, three

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

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

[HD] adverb also

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[HH] verb, intransitive shine like cat eyes (said of a person’ s eyes when he is excited, or when he should be ashamed but isn’t); shine intensely, brightly

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

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[HL] noun sixpence

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HH] noun weavil

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[LHL] noun rice

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[H] verb, transitive suck

[H] verb, transitive soothe, pat, rock a child

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

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