Ibibio English

[H.HL] noun central beam of a house, it runs the length of the roof

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun water buffalo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun meeting place

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[HHH] noun moon, month

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[HHL] adjective old

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[LHH] noun needle

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive to put underneath (a hand for support, a pot to catch dripping liquid, new mats under the old ones to patch a thatch roof)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

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[LL] noun mother.

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[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

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[HHL] noun cooking hearth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun young men, youths

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[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cost

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[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

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[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive finish; following another verb ma indicates completed actions

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun scar, welt

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[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

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[LH HD] noun ring

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[HLLHL] noun armpit

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[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interj. yes

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[L] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms); grope

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive undulate, wriggle (in the manner of a maggot); dance with undulating movement

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[HHF] noun eczema

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[LHH] noun scum

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[L] verb, intransitive shake (of a drunkards hand, of an old rattly car, of a cloth flapping in the wind; tremble, move about)

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LL] noun my mother

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[H] ideophone sound of splashing water

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

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

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

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[H] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[HH] verb, intransitive walk in a slow, lazy, sloppy, or stealthy manner

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

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

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

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

[LHLL] noun rice

[LL] noun grave

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[HH] verb, transitive mix, adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[H] noun child, offspring