Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a bundle, a bundle of long, stiff objects, a bundle of twenty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun town, village

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cloth, clothes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun table

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pass, pass by, cross

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pig.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun millipede.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun rope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fire.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun door hinge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun hat, cap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun cooking hearth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive stand in a certain relative position, as in kpe iso or kp edem.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun thick porridge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb here.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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 HL] noun eyebrow

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] adjective without response

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[LLL] noun mould

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

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[LLH] noun basket

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

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

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

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

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[HF] noun mortar

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[HH] noun friend

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[HHH] noun a whistle

[HH] noun oppression

[LF] noun cassava fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LH] noun your father

[LH] numeral three

[HH] noun ear

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark