Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aiʔ] noun mine

[amai] yours (plural)

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

ninety

wash someone

paternal grandfather

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

noun dawn

slow

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

verb dry

pronoun you (two)

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

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

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

fall

noun elbow

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

salivate

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[men] classifier for people

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

worm

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ocean

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wife

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

arm

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

will be

say

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

tribe

[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 excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun maternal uncle

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

farmer

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

lift open

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll