Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

spit (v)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

wash someone

dry

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

who

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

push

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

comb (v)

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

black ant (large, stings)

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

n bracelet

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mɔn] your

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

smooth

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hidden

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

son-in-law

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

arm

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

thigh

ground

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

noun knee

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

farmer

separated, be

star

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar