Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun settler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cross the fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun path in the bush

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shoulder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive be afraid, fear

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone describes the sudden stopping of noise or action

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive come

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[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun husband

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHL] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun world.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

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[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun court, council meeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective dwarf, small in size, left over

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, over there, yonder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LH] verb, transitive; verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become restless; make rapid, jittery movements, fire crackling, wood breaking; describes the action of starting up in fright

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a heavy round object such as a coconut or palm fruit cluster when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive greet, thank, congragulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pl people

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun my

[HH] noun jest, clowning, embarrassment

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

[HH] noun a women’s society

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (to show seriousness and thus make a child comply)

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

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

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

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

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

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

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

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

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

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[LH] verb, intransitive lie

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

[H] verb, intransitive become stupid, retarded

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[H] verb, intransitive increase

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

[HF] noun trouble

[LHH] noun slap

[LF LL] noun state of being walleyed, wall-eyes (eyes that turn outward)

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

[HD] phrase What day?

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement