Ibibio English

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun cannon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun king

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun settler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun moon, month

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the first-born son

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun a strong wind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive beg, beg for; plead with, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun pawpaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive call, shout (at), scream (at), cry out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive eat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH ] verb, transitive wipe up, dab, take a bit(of food to taste, of cream on the finger) pl cleam up, clean away; wipe up a liquid or semiliquid substance(water, faeces)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun monkey

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

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

[LL] noun court, council meeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun grey hair; mould (on food, leather)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

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

[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become heaped up, piled up; tv heap up, pile up.

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

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

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[HF] noun bitter

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[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt (esp. a covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together)); a razor strop

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun advice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become able, know how; tv surpass, excel (used in making com- parisons), triumph over, beat (win)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive/verb transitive think, meditate, worry, brood; hope, expect; consider; become concerned with, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHHH] noun [Efik] a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

[HD] interj. yes

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[H] ideophone sound of a bell

[HHH] noun delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[LLH] adjective alive; raw; fresh (of meat, fish, a wound)

[HHH] noun race, competition

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

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LLL] noun a kind of basket used for catching fish or crabs, small ones are made of palm fronds, large ones of cane

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[L] verb, transitive to stretch out, stretch forward, stick out, point; intransitive: stick out, extend

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

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

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

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[LL] verb, intransitive tiptoe, walk on tiptoe

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[LL] numeral second

[LLL] noun room

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LL] noun your mother

[LF] noun cassava fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[LH] verb, intransitive become beautiful

[H] verb, transitive attach, put together, fasten, lock, hang (from a point, or curtains, tie on so that it may hang)