Ibibio English

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun pawpaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree trunk (the oart between the roots and the crown); a log left by the side of the river to wash clothes on.

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

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] verb, transitive blow out through the nose, blow the nose, snort (at).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cricket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

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

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with a small head, dried and used for soup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun parrot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun debt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive judge a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive copulate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs; unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun grace, favour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive affect, influence (as in influence of alchohol or drug)

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[HF] noun horn of animal

[LH] noun fear

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[LLHL] noun a kind of edible snail, small with a lightweight shell

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

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

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

[HF] noun silk, any shiny material used for a head tie

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

[HD] noun grandfather

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

[H] verb, transitive eject, hurl, throw, shoot, sting

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[LHL] noun pigeon

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

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[HH] noun friend

[HH] adjective new

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

[LHL] noun rice

[LH] noun fishing spear

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HF] adverb slow, with care

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

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

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface