Mokilese English

spit (v)

[apid] n three wooden poles on either side of and parallel to the two kia that make up the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

pron. ours

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

other

louse, head

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

little finger

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

push

bowstring

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puffer fish

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Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

rich

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

tongue

think

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hip

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

clean

sell

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

first

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n fashion earrings

noun leaf

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun remain

house

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

lift open

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs