Mokilese English

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

wash hair

yes

noun fan

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

salt

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

n sweetheart

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

noun eat

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[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 gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

noun cloud

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hold

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

pain

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hungry, be

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

noun forearm

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cave

young

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister

twenty

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. powerful

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

tear

noun gecko

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun remain

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll