Mokilese English

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj lumpy

Speaker: Harrison, Seldon P. and Salich Albert. 1977

save

ninety

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun maternal grandfather

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb press

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

vi to force

Speaker: Harrison, Seldon P. and Salich Albert. 1977

vi to be born

Speaker: Harrison, Seldon P. and Salich Albert. 1977

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sneeze

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

send

third

see

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

thousand

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spear for fishing

Speaker: Harrison, Seldon P. and Salich Albert. 1977

adj. happy

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

[men] classifier for people

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

burned

sweat

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

pull open

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

fly (v)

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

Speaker: Harrison, Seldon P. and Salich Albert. 1977

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

farmer

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fruit

understand

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll