Mokilese English

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elected chief

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

starve

maternal grandmother

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe

lice, body

vi to force

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

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

be quiet

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

see

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

skin

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

roof

tired

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fist

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

spear

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[mɔn] your

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

left

son

hidden

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

thief

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[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

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

paternal uncle

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

brother

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

n party (celebration)

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

tear

tree

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

wet

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hail