Mokilese English

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

noun east

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

noun finger

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

n sweetheart

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

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

second

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

thousand

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

bow

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

tusk

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun hip

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n goatfish

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

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb prepare

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wife

noun pipe

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

sand

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun forearm

recognize

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

n batfish

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

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun maternal uncle

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll