Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tiger

n surgeon fish

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

wash someone

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

flea

cook

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

weak

thirty

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

cry

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

send

third

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (two)

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

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

scared

blind

spear

n spear for fishing

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

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did 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

have children

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

virgin

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

tribe

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweat

shell

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

raise

star

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

lift open

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar