Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. ours

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

then

n parrotfish

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

ninety

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

sharp

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

n skipjack (fish)

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

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun moon, month

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

noun heel

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fist

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

[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

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

son

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

there

hide

adj. being 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

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

wife

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun pipe

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

obey

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

sand

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n tip of penis (slang)

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

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

v to be broken or deflowered

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

adj. thin

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

tree

star

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I have 2 canoes

wet, become

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail