Mokilese English

sentence why are you here

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

where

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

who

sad

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

slow

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

kind

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

pronoun you (two)

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

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hold

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

red ant

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

old

noun head

sweet

worm

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

old (person)

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

drunk, get

have children

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[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

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

river

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

say

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

hear

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun gecko

star

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

turtle

make

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

wet

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll