Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun squirrel

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun moon, month

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] adjective old

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun expanse e.g. ocean

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wasp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun person, human being; someone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive call, shout (at), scream (at), cry out

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive tell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun big, huge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun saliva.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun father, old man, respectful address or reference to a man.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive uncover, strip, take off, peel (with the fingers).

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

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fail to come about, fail to materialize; fail to carry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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] noun scar

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

[LHL] adjective without response

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HLL] noun shadow

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HH] noun sand

[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

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

[HHH] noun water

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive laugh

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

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

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LH] noun birth mark

[HH] noun arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HHHH] noun a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[HF] noun a polite term for itịt, vagina

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[HL] adverb yet, then

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)