Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

n lump

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

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

many people

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wash someone

mother-in-law

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

noun east

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

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

n skipjack (fish)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

put

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb, transitive break

tusk

verb talk

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

sentence I have a canoe

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canned milk (store bought)

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

female

how

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

worm

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

noun coconut tree

receive

take

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

set on fire

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

thief

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

n batfish

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

noun knee

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

v to try to break or deflower

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

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fly (v)

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

vomit

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail