Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

shoulder

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

save

wash hair

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

twelve

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

other person

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sharp

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

gonorrhea

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

be quiet

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

comb (v)

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

sky

adj. happy

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpening tool

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun monkey

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

son-in-law

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

friend

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sister

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

singer

verb play

eighty

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John