Ibibio English

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

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[LF] noun whisper

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun vein, artery, tendon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective green

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become buried

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

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

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[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun chin.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun monkey

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun civet cat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun world.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] number one hundred.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tortoise.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun crab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive stand in a relative position.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] ideophone sound made by a bar of steel when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a heavy round object such as a coconut or palm fruit cluster when it falls to the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive knock

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun the side of the face from temple to jaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[LHL] adjective without response

[HF] noun a power spirit generally associated with a particular place or group of people; some of these spirits inhabit the forest, others the water; each Ibibio clan has its own ndem; sacrifices are made to them and to certain festivals attached to them

[HHH] noun something rotten

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[LHH] noun calamity

[LH] numeral third, three

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

[L] verb, transitive sell

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[LH] verb, transitive pour into; empty out; wide

[LHH] noun a shrine

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[HH] verb, intransitive become left over, remain

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

[LH] verb, transitive make incantation, call down a curse on

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[LH] verb, transitive tortute, torment, punish

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[HH] verb, transitive touch; fig affect

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[LHH] noun slap

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

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

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LHLL] noun radio (English loanword)

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[HL] noun guava

[HHH] verb, transitive satisfy (with food, information)

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)

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