Mokilese English

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj lumpy

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

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

n parrotfish

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

wash hair

paternal grandmother

maternal grandmother

mother-in-law

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

n scaleless fish

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

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

gonorrhea

n skipjack (fish)

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

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

be quiet

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. possible

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

watch (v)

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

we know each other

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

tired

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

pronoun you (singular)

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

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

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

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

spear

honey

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sharpening tool

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

clean

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hidden

take

hat

youngest sister

urinate (piss)

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

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

paternal uncle

noun maternal uncle

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

story

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

understand

wet

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

hail

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll