Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj lumpy

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

n parrotfish

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

maternal grandmother

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

bowstring

verb dry

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

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

yawn

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

spear

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

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

clean

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thigh

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail