Mokilese English

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

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

noun maternal grandfather

dry

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to be poor

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

hello

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

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

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

noun fingernail

rich

[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 cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

yawn

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

spear

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

noun breastmilk

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

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

hungry

green

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

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

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

born, be

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

take

hat

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pond

dirty

thigh

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

noun maternal uncle

adj. thin

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

wet, become

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll