Mokilese English

spit (v)

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

pron. ours

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wash someone

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

maternal grandmother

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

sea snake

lice, body

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to force

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

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

gonorrhea

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

try

noun year, age

n steel drum

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

third

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

we know each other

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

fall

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

black ant (large, stings)

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

true

noun breastmilk

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

broken

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hand

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull open

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

fly (v)

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

star

verb play

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

village

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson