Mokilese English

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

save

paternal grandfather

noun maternal grandfather

maternal grandmother

dry

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

n scaleless fish

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

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

be quiet

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to be poor

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

watch (v)

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb exchange, to

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

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

tired

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb talk

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash clothes

yawn

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

spear

honey

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb chew

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 nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought a hat.

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

snore

drunk, get

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

receive

take

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

urinate (piss)

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

paternal uncle

noun maternal uncle

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. wide

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

understand

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll