Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun yawn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun basket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun Adam’s apple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive find and keep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive reveal a secret, narrate a story, convey information, inform, relate, (all have derogatory connotation)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun axe.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun smallpox

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp of the ground or of something which should be flat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun European

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

[LHL] interjection no

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[HH] verb, intransitive talk in an angry, high-piched voice; ideophone: sound of a frightened, wounded dog

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[H] pronoun what, who which

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hop, jump; jump over; abate, let up (pl. of tamma)

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[LHL] noun pigeon

[LL] noun room

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LH] noun right (direction)

[HF] noun strength, force, power

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

[LL] noun covering on the surface of something (skin on soup, tarnish on metal, fungus)

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

[L] verb, transitive write

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

[LL] verb, transitive warm food, reheat afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness