Mokilese English

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

save

paternal grandmother

noun maternal grandfather

maternal grandmother

mother-in-law

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

in morning

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

bowstring

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

shaman

verb dry

hello

adj. possible

[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 have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fingernail

roof

tired

bow

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

[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

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

yawn

spear

honey

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sharpening tool

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

silent

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

drunk, get

clean

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

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)

noun pond

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 find

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

paternal uncle

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. wide

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll