Ibibio English

[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cloth, clothes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] adjective old

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun clan chief

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun kind of large edible white termite which makes huge hills.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun rope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun firewood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun hat, cap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive agree to, be willing to; run errands opt w utom message, errand, work

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[H] verb, transitive cost

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 restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

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

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle (pl. of kọp [L])

[LH] noun the side of the face from temple to jaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun specialist, practitioner (pl. of abia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun water

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

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

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[LL] verb, transitive doubt, argue, dispute

[HHH] noun an edible fern found in streams

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LH] noun a rattle, musical instrument filled with seeds or pebbles which is shaken; strings of seeds worn around ankles and wrists to make noise when dancing

[LL] adjective small, few

[LL] verb, intransitive become greedy

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

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[LLH] verb, intransitive dawn, enter a new day, remain until the new day, make it through the night

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[LL] numeral second

[HDH] noun some

[HF] noun trouble

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[LF] noun your grandmother

[LLHH] noun cloaca of a chicken, hindquarters of a chicken (?)

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[LLL] noun universe

[LF] noun a kind of fresh water eel

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LHL] numeral five

[LLL] noun beauty

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[HF] noun noise

[H] verb, transitive suck

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful