Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wash someone

nineteen

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

who

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

return

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

no

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

feed

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

second

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb be pregnant

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

death

eldest brother

hungry, be

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

drunk, get

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

that

take

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

verb be prepared

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

water

noun forearm

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

will be

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hot

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

strong

n fashion earrings

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

star

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n banana

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