Ibibio English

[HF] noun dust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun mosquito

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[LLLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun electric fish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun forest

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[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun person, human being; someone

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive sharpen

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[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

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[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive come

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[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of fish, good to eat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

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

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cattle, bovine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

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

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun partition (in the house made of cloth); section of bush partitioned by boundary markers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun toad

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun crab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun vagina

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[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels (pl. of kpat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive copulate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neigbour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

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[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

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a kind of yam, fast ripening, it grows in an udder-like formation

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] adverb also, too

[HH] noun weeds (syn. NwIp, mbiot, mbit, mbiet)

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adverb not even

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[HF] noun horn of animal

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

[L] verb, intransitive become pleasant, enjoyable, sweet

[LHH] noun calamity

[HLLH] noun ant

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

[LH] noun a rattle, musical instrument filled with seeds or pebbles which is shaken; strings of seeds worn around ankles and wrists to make noise when dancing

[HLL] noun a children’s running and hiding game played by moonlight

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

[HH] noun the sour orange

[LH] verb, transitive singe

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

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

[HH] verb, transitive fight; struggle; try

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend

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

[L] verb, transitive taste (food, drink)

[L] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[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] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HH] noun weight

[LF] noun a ditch containing water, a large pit, dam

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HF] noun day, twenty-four hours

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LLH] noun spider web

[LLL] noun beauty

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[HHH] verb, intransitive become poor

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface