Mokilese English

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun leg

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

seven hundred

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

kind

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

no

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

feed

noun eat

twist open

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bracelet

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

spear

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

worm

hungry

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

left

clean

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun puddle

husband

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

hand

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun smell

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

noun knee

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to try to break or deflower

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

noun maternal uncle

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

raise

house

hut

vomit

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

pull

turtle

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter