Ibibio English

[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun settler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun squirrel

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun lungs

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun jar, jug for storage of water

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun onion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive find and keep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive speak, say, tell, mean, intend

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

verb, transitive become smooth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive climb (tree, hill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun court, council meeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive stick into a narrow space, wedge in, put between.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cricket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun firewood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun parrot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun nose

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive call, invite, read

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive stand in a relative position.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive; verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

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

[HH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb here.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] possessive pronoun they, them, their

[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[HLHH] noun stain

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[LH] noun my father

[L] verb, transitive sell

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

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

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

[F] noun tea

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[LHL] noun pigeon

[LF] noun your husband

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[HF] noun trouble

[LHH] noun slap

[HF] noun smell, odor

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

[LHH] adjective many, much

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LH] noun your father

[HHL] noun a kind of large lizard, land living

[LL] noun quarrel

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