Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

save

wash hair

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

maternal grandmother

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

vi to force

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

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

gonorrhea

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

sneeze

child

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

push

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

twist open

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

fall

roof

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

salivate

word

verb be pregnant

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

noun canned milk (store bought)

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun intestines

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

son

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun pipe

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hot

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

shell

v to be broken or deflowered

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

brother in law

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

hear

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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