Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun cannon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun settler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun group, flock, herd

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive break

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive answer a question, answer a call(in the latter case only used negatively, i.e. fail to answer a call)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb shine (of sun or moon)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun greeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun thief; theft

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive even, even if, unless, not even.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

[LH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[LL] verb, intransitive grow (of people, animals, plants, hair) (pl. of kọt [L])

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neigbour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slacken; relax the body or part of the body

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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

[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[LHL] adjective small

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[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

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

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

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[HHHH] noun eternity

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

[LL] noun my mother

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[LH] conj even if, not even if

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

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[H] verb, transitive speak to, talk to, say, tell; rebuke, reprove often

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[L] verb, transitive grate

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[LLH] noun ability

[HD] phrase What day?

[HHH] noun beach; sandbar

[LHH] noun needle

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[HH] noun childhood

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[HL] noun guava

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

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