Mokilese English

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

elder

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

twelve

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

shaman

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

n playing card

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

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

tusk

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

sharpening tool

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

clean

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

v sexually experienced

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

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

hole

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

farmer

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

house

twin

vomit

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll