Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash self

twelve

paternal grandmother

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

flea

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to be born

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

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

child

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

cry

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twist open

second

put

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fall

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

adj. pregnant

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

sky

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

death

noun head

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

ocean

when

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

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

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb be prepared

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tribe

noun fishing pole

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

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. wide

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

strong

waterfall

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

star

vomit

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

lift open

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll