Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

what

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

n surgeon fish

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

noun leg

rainbow

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

bleed

n scaleless fish

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

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

gonorrhea

n skipjack (fish)

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

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bowstring

verb to be poor

sick

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

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

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

n papaya

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito larva

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

adj. very poor

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sniff

red ant

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun head

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

silent

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

water

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

thief

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n Kind of jellyfish

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

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

n party (celebration)

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

copulate (have sex with)

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wet

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

feather

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John