Mokilese English

noun egg

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

paternal grandmother

mother-in-law

rainbow

seventy

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bleed

n scaleless fish

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

sharpen

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

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

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

third

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

[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

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

they know each other

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fist

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

[men] classifier for people

male

how

smooth

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will 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

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be prepared

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb escape

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

story

noun fashion earrings

waterfall

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun gecko

farmer

tree

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

make

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson