Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

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 self

wash hair

paternal grandfather

mother-in-law

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sad

n scaleless fish

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

machete

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

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

verb to be poor

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

hello

adj. possible

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

[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

we know each other

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

tired

bow

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

smooth

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

leech

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

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

silent

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

born, be

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

youngest sister

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pond

thigh

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal uncle

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun maternal uncle

adj. thin

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet, become

wet

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll