Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

what

wash hair

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandfather

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

salt

child

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

push

no

verb to be poor

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sweetheart

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

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

yesterday

hello

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

thousand

comb (v)

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

eldest brother

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

old (person)

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

set on fire

verb prepare

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

young woman

noun green coconut

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

ground

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

mud

adj. thin

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

feather

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll