Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

pron. ours

what

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pay

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

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

shaman

n playing card

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

feed

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

traditional chief

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

drunk, get

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

clean

born, be

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

ground

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

hot

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

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

n Kind of jellyfish

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

day after tomorrow

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

copulate (have sex with)

adj. powerful

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

pull

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll