Mokilese English

noun egg

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. ours

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n lump

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

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

ninety

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

nineteen

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

where

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

kind

child

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

tusk

adj. very poor

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

widow

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yawn

scared

eldest brother

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[mɔn] your

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

male

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hide

n goatfish

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

v sexually experienced

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

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be prepared

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

hot

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

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

noun cave

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

n party (celebration)

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

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

singer

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

farmer

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

turtle

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll