Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun root

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun a young man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun lizard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive find and keep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive bite

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 kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun good, genuine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun hippopotamus

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun hat, cap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLH] verb, transitive gather up, take, pick up (pl. of ben [H] gather, take up, pick up)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun scar, welt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive swallow

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLF] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

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

[LLH] noun warm

[LL] pronoun my

[HD] adverb also, too

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[HLL] noun prickly heat

[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

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

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

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

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

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

[HL] noun tailor (English loanword)

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

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

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

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[LL] noun grave

[HHH] noun a whistle

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[LHL] noun rice

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[LLH] noun spider web

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

[H] verb, transitive attach, put together, fasten, lock, hang (from a point, or curtains, tie on so that it may hang)

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)

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