Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun moon, month

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun table

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun bone, stem, the prominent, conspicious or salient part of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun chameleon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun clan chief

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] become broken, break(of its own accord)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive stand

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL.H] verb, transitive collect, gather, pull down tendrils or other vegetation from a tree or the side of a house; tap on the back to get a persons attention

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

[LLL] noun small drum, two or three tuned to different pitches are played at once with the hands.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive dodge, duck, move aside, move away, move out of the way; tv dodge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, Colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun knife, machet (machete)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cajole, entice, lure.

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

[HH] verb, transitive make way, step aside

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ref. hang, hang on oneself, choke

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun kind of plant, where it is found the soil is fertile, its leaves contain an acidic liquid used for cleaning wounds and cleaning snails, its stem is chewed, bush cane, Costus after (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun brain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] noun a shoot (esp. referes to the shoot of a a yam stored in the yam marn prior to planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] conjunction with, and

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[HLL] noun shadow

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HF] noun vein (esp. in the arm)

[LH] conjunction so, so that

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[HLLH] noun ant

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[LH HL] noun village crier, he beats a drum and makes announcements

[HF] noun the gums

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[LH] noun oyster

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

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

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive poke (with a sharp object, a stick) (esp to find where yams are below the ground) (var. sappa)

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[HL] noun sixpence

[LLH] verb, transitive to make a sign of disgust, impatience, disapproval, contempt; smack the lips over a good taste

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

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

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

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

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

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

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LHH] noun middle

[LF] noun your grandmother

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

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

[H] verb, intransitive move about, become restless, fidget

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast