Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

n large lizard introduced by the Japanese to Mokil Atoll; may possibly be a Mangrove Monitor (Varanus indicus)

other person

paternal grandfather

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun year, age

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

yesterday

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

feed

see

twist open

n papaya

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. happy

true

[men] classifier for people

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

smooth

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

hungry, be

sit down

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

wild boar

urinate (piss)

water

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

[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 smell

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tear

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

noun meat

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

lift open

feather

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs