Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

elder

pron. ours

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

what

n surgeon fish

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

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

pay

other person

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

shaman

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

new

[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

fall

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n unidentified fish species

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

n bracelet

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

female

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

have children

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

hidden

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

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

youngest brother

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hot

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun knee

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

noun fashion earrings

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

stop

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

hail