Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

trail

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj lumpy

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

other person

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

seven hundred

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

n scaleless fish

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

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

n sweetheart

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

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

[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

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito larva

noun fingernail

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fist

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n unidentified fish species

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

noun ocean area very far from reef

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

thirsty, be

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

there

interro. how many

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

every

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

dirty

noun forearm

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister-in-law

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

hear

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

turtle