Ibibio English

[LLL] noun God, god

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun king

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun squirrel

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the first-born son

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a broom made from oil palm fronds stripped of their leaves and tied in a bunch, it is generally used for sweeping the house

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

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

[L] verb, intransitive become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off(ripe or dead fruit), fall out(of hair)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive come

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] number twenty.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun copulation.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun having few feathers or sparse hair.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun grandfather (paternal or maternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun extra-marital sex.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun toad

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun nose

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp of the ground or of something which should be flat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun grace, favour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLH HL] noun rough skin, tough skin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (in surprise because something is in the eye, to scare someone)

[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

[HLLH] noun ant

[HL] noun knuckle

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[LHH] noun clan chief

[HHH] noun a lump (of meat, a clay), a mass; a nest made by ants

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[HH] verb, intransitive become dry (pl. of sat)

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

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

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

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

[LL] numeral second

[HDH] noun some

[HF] noun house

[HH] noun liability, burden

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[HHL] noun your kinsman

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance