Ibibio English

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun comb

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun whisper

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun trap, ordeal

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive break, break open (something round; something made of glass and clay)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive stand

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive come

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become sick, become sick with

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

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

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun walking stick.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive eat up a large quantity of food.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun whirlwind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun firewood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a cripple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become old; ancient; look old (of inanimate objects)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cost

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive become flat (of something that should swell or be rounded).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive scrape, scrape off, shave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun the heavy dregs (yeast) from palm wine which settle at the bottom of the calabash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun shin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective fresh (not cooked, dried or smoked)

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

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

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

[LH] interrogative what

[HDH] interrogative noun what?

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[HH] noun ashes, dust

[HH] verb, intransitive be itchy, scratchy

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[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)

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

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

[H] verb, intransitive become gently, mild (of disposition, weather); adverb: quietly, safely

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

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

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LHL] noun pigeon

[HF] noun trouble

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHD] noun a kind of fish with a hard skull and whiskers, good to east (Goldie: a species of catfish); (var akpakot)

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

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[L] verb, transitive kill

[LH] verb, intransitive warm oneself in the sun or by the fire, bask

[H] verb, transitive having the urge to sleep

[HH] verb, transitive pinch