Ibibio English

[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun horn, trumpet

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] noun wait, wait for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun greeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun eulogy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

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

[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

[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

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

[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

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

[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun time

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[LL] noun tail

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[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (not using hands)

[H] verb, transitive die perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become born

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interj. yes

[LHL] interjection no

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[LHH] noun yam stake, a stick placed in the ground for the yam plant to climb on

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[LHH] noun calamity

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

[L] verb, transitive sell

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

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

[LL] noun my mother

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[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

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

[L] verb, transitive select, select out, sort out

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

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

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

[H] ideophone describes the action of cutting something all the way through

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

[LHL] noun pigeon

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LHH] noun slap

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[LL] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[H] verb, transitive suck

[L] verb, transitive write

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

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

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