Mokilese English

[amai] yours (plural)

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wash hair

twelve

other person

noun maternal grandfather

dry

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

seventy

louse, head

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thirty

[t͡ʃimʷen re:l] n the rail on top of the canoe and near the front end; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smoke

watch (v)

throw

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

n papaya

[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

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

widow

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bracelet

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

old

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

young man

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

n goatfish

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

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

set on fire

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

youngest sister

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

noun full moon

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

brother in law

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

star

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

vomit

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll