Ibibio English

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun slave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive find and keep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive break

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive not know, doubt, have doub about, refuse to recognize

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

verb, transitive become smooth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun mother.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective big

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

[HF] noun laughter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[LLH] transitive verb remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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 cut through, cut off; pl chop.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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

[L] verb, transitive vomit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun side, edge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun banana

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHLHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LHH] noun calamity

[LLL] noun a kind of basket used for catching fish or crabs, small ones are made of palm fronds, large ones of cane

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

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

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[H] verb, intransitive become gently, mild (of disposition, weather); adverb: quietly, safely

[HH] verb, transitive pluck fruit (esp. pepper) cf kippe (pl. of tet)

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LLL] noun fate, luck

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate