Ibibio English

[HF] noun dust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of yam formerly only planted by women, water yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pluck (feathers, hair, weeds).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun; adjective; adverb aloneness, lack of relations

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun toad

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone describes a quick action; describes a completed action or state.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cut (esp many small sticks and brush as when clearing land for farming (pl. of kpIkke)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive copulate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun exhaustion, fatigue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] noun foot

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

[HL] interj. what

[LHL] interjection no

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of nails being driven

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

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

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[LLL] noun mist, fog

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LF] noun lead (metal)

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[HF] noun second-born daughter

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] verb, intransitive laugh (plural of sak)

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

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

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

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[LH] verb, transitive place an order

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

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[HHH] verb, intransitive kneel

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LHH] noun right (direction)

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

[LH] noun fishing spear

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[LL] noun life, destiny, universe, creation

[LH] noun fishhook

[LHH] noun needle

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak