Mokilese English

[amai] yours (plural)

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

drum

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n parrotfish

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

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun east

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

vi to force

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

n love

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

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

cry

sick

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

noun year, age

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (two)

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

see

find

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

[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

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fingernail

skin

undress

verb fall

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 cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun language

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

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n unidentified fish species

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

wash clothes

blind

true

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

frighten

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun money

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

silent

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wife

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

friend

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

v to be broken or deflowered

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

brother in law

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

fly (v)

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

copulate (have sex with)

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll