Ibibio English

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun king

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[HLL] noun sweat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adjective new

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[HLHL] noun lungs

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun A sexually transmitted infection (STI) in men, involves painful swellings on the groin area that may impede walking

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive belch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive fail to show appreciation, criticize what has been done for one

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rev. of biom put down what one has been carrying on the head

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun headtie

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun rice.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tooth.

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

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

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[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

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[LH] verb, transitive go to, go for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive walk on the balls of the feet, walk on tiptoe

[LL] verb, transitive become resistant, obstinate (of a person, an animal); become difficult (of work, a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat on the ground.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun pity, sympathy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun singlet, sleeveless underwear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] interjection no

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

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

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[HHH] noun something rotten

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[LHH] noun calamity

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

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

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[LLH] noun basket

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

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

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

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

[HF] noun mortar

[HLL] adverb completely

[LH] noun fishing spear

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LHH] noun needle

[HF] noun noise

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly