Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stew, soup

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[HHL] adjective old

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[HHHH] noun thought, meditation, hope, expectation, consideration, care

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun a young man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHDH] noun left-handed person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become thickened (e.g. broth thickened by flavor); become dirty (e.g. cloths or water)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive (copula) be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive spill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

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

[HH] noun goat; a stupid person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun baldness, bald spot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tooth.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tortoise.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive leave a place, abandon, go away, leave alone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] conj. so, so that

[LHL] adjective without response

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun water

[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

[LH] pronoun there (homographs: ndo ’and’; ndo ’scare’)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[LL] noun lies

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[HHH] verb, intransitive become melted

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

[HD] adverb also

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

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

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

[LL] verb, transitive hate, dislike

[LLL] verb, transitive scatter things that are arranged or piled up, strew things about dishevel, disorder

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[HD] noun grandfather

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

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

[H] verb, intransitive urinate

[HDH] noun some

[HH] noun weavil

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

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

[LF] noun lack, scarcity

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[LLLH] noun a dish of grated cocoyam steamed in leaves

[LLL] noun beauty

[HHH] noun any insect which pinches

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

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

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[H] verb, transitive make an announcement

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)