Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. ours

noun elected chief

yes

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother-in-law

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

dry

louse, head

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

sad

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thumb

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

gonorrhea

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

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

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[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

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

they know each other

mouse

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

spear

sentence I have a canoe

sharpening tool

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

noun monkey

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun coconut tree

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

river

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cave

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

stop

noun remain

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I have 2 canoes

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

feather

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs