Mokilese English

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

save

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

sun

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

never

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

third

feed

find

twist open

thousand

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

kiss

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

spear

adj. happy

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thirsty, be

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[men] classifier for people

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breastmilk

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

old (person)

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

when

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

dirty

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

twenty

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n fashion earrings

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

noun remain

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

feather

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll