Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

then

wash hair

pay

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

seven hundred

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

slow

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

return

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

child

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

no

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

try

verb dry

noun smoke

watch (v)

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exchange, to

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

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

put

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

red ant

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

salivate

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

n unidentified fish species

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

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

green

traditional chief

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[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

drunk, get

clean

receive

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

youngest brother

noun green coconut

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

friend

mud

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

brother in law

sister-in-law

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

house

hut

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hail