Mokilese English

[aɾai] theirs

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

n lump

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

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

who

trap (v)

kind

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

gonorrhea

push

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

adj. possible

feed

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

we know each other

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

skin

n spine foot (fish)

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

big

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun hip

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bracelet

noun ocean area very far from reef

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

elderly

green

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

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

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

son-in-law

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thigh

recognize

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

hole

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

n batfish

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

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun maternal uncle

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. powerful

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

west

make

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

n banana

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