Mokilese English

trail

[amai] yours (plural)

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

[apid] n three wooden poles on either side of and parallel to the two kia that make up the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun elected chief

n parrotfish

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

pay

maternal grandmother

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

rainbow

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

gonorrhea

sneeze

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

no

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

watch (v)

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

tired

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. very poor

word

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. happy

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

eldest sister

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

how

pain

smooth

sweet

young man

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

son

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

husband

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

arm

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

mud

[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

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

brother in law

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

adj. powerful

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

waterfall

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

turtle

wet, become

sixty

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll