Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun lungs

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHDH] noun left-handed person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun a strong wind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive eat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun sacred place where family heirlooms are kept; archive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun greeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive spit, spit out (food, liquid, silaiva)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun toad

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLH, LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

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 talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

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

[HH] noun dream

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[HLL] noun shadow

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HH] noun face, front, future

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[HF] noun the gums

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[LH] verb, intransitive bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

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

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[L] verb, intransitive be small

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

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[HD] noun grandfather

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

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

[HDH] noun some

[LL] noun room

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LLH] noun ability

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[H] verb, transitive suck

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm

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

[H] noun child, offspring

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

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance

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

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms