Mokilese English

noun egg

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

tiger

adj lumpy

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

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twelve

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandmother

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

sea snake

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n scaleless fish

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

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

ill, become

n playing card

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

adj. possible

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (two)

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

second

n papaya

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

salivate

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb be pregnant

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

sentence I have a canoe

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

verb escape

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

pull open

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. wide

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

vomit

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

village

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll