Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun slave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun hut, improvised temporary shelter(in the bush or at the fishing ponds)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] verb, intransitive become ruined, spoiled, destroyed(pl of biara)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] verb, transitive pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive stick into a narrow space, wedge in, put between.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] adjective become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun reasoning power, common sense, intellect.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun calabash (gen term), Lagenaria vulgaris (Dalziel); a calabash container; any small container to drink from; a standard measure (about a cup) for gari, rice, beans.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun walk, journey; gait

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

[H] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive overlap, cross, heap, pile on top of; arrange, set up, prepare for use

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLLH LLLLH] adjective dry and crisp, rough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive insult; disobey, disregard

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun scar

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHL] noun buttefly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun piece

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun skull

[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

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] conj. so, so that

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[HLHHHL] noun the pelvic area (var. edidiono)

[HLLH] noun ant

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HHHH] noun eternity

[LLL] noun mould

[HHL] adjective ancient, former; old (of inanimate objects)

[LH] noun folktale, proverb

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[HH] verb, intransitive talk in an angry, high-piched voice; ideophone: sound of a frightened, wounded dog

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[HL] noun sixpence

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

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

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

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[HH] noun weight

[HH] noun friend

[HH] adjective new

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LLH] noun spider web

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

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[HL] noun wire (English loanword)

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

[L] verb, transitive cut into large pieces (as tree into logs, a fish into large chunks)

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)