Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aiʔ] noun mine

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb jerk

n parrotfish

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

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

sad

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

n playing card

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

n sweetheart

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

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

second

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

thousand

put

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

male

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

hungry

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

when

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

receive

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

set on fire

husband

noun pipe

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

friend

say

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

brother in law

adj. wide

fly (v)

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

noun leaf

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll