Mokilese English

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj lumpy

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

save

n parrotfish

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

wash self

paternal grandmother

noun maternal grandfather

maternal grandmother

mother-in-law

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

be quiet

bowstring

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fingernail

tired

bow

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

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

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

n spear for fishing

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

honey

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

green

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

silent

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

drunk, get

born, be

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

youngest sister

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

urinate (piss)

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

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

paternal aunt

paternal uncle

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. thin

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. wide

story

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun gecko

understand

wet

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll