Ibibio English

[HF HL] noun pimple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shoulder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun slave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] adjective old

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

[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective green

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of reed; a sleeping mat woven from reed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun crying, weeping

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive argue, argue with, disagree with.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive suck, suck out (marrow from a bone, flesh from a periwinkle shell) pl suck, pull hard with the mouth (esp when one makes a sound while doing it) sip through a straw.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun hair (on the head or growing densely as on the head).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cocoyam, colocasia esculentum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun advice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive resolve not to do a thing.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automobile horn

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, transitive vomit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, intransitive become born

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun dirt, refuse, garbage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pl people

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun banana

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk cautiously as when one sees danger, or because of mud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun brain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb here.

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

[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] adjective small

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[HHF] noun eczema

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HHH] noun race, competition

[LL] verb, intransitive walk with legs apart (like a person who has a boil, or something between his legs)

[LHH] noun scum

[LHH] noun mockery

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[LL] noun place

[HHH] verb, intransitive become mixed, kneaded, mashed, smashed, run over

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LL] verb, intransitive be tall, long, far, high, deep

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

[HHF] noun hiccup

[LH] conj even if, not even if

[LH] noun oyster

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

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LH] verb, transitive strike on the head with the knuckles made in a fist

[HH] verb, transitive abuse, humiliate

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive hop, jump; jump over; abate, let up (pl. of tamma)

[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 spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

[LHL] noun pigeon

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[LH] noun right (direction)

[LHH] noun left (direction)

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

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement