Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj lumpy

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

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash hair

paternal grandfather

paternal grandmother

maternal grandmother

mother-in-law

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sad

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

be quiet

bowstring

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

watch (v)

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cloud

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

spear

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpening tool

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

hungry

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

drunk, get

clean

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

youngest brother

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

urinate (piss)

thigh

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

n Kind of jellyfish

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

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

paternal uncle

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

story

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

wet, become

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail