Ibibio English

[LHH] adjective black, ripe, mature

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective all, every

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] adjective old

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

[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun sunshine, the suns rays, daylight; weather, season, time, the times

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pain, hurt; sicken

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive resemble, appear to, seem to, seem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive sleep

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive stay over-night, spend the night

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive bite

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive boast

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun pig.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun suicide by hanging a tight knot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun shore, harbor, port.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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 uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun sleep.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun spoon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun gonorrhea.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive cut into, slash

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by a heavy object (a person, coconut, a palm fruit cluster) when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

[HH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun today

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLLHLL] noun butterfly

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

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interj. yes

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[LHH] noun calamity

[LHH] noun mockery

[LLH] interrogative noun what?

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LHHH] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[HHHLLLHL] noun locust

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

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

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

[H] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[HL] noun shilling

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

[HH] ideophone sound of a car (automobile) horn

[H] verb, transitive pay close attention

[HH] verb, intransitive become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

[HF] noun fatness, breadth

[HHF] noun the small of the back and the area immediately surrounding it

[LHF] noun third-born son

[HF] noun smell, odor

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

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

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[LL] noun dish, plate, bowl

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[HH] noun the sun

[HHL] noun voice, order, edict

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[HH] verb, transitive elude, evade (as a solution eludes one)

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[LL] verb, transitive cook a very small quantity of rich afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)