Mokilese English

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

yes

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

how much

sea snake

louse, head

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

n playing card

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

n sweetheart

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

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

watch (v)

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

put

n spine foot (fish)

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

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

waist

noun ocean area very far from reef

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thirsty, be

eldest brother

sentence I have a canoe

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

elderly

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

there

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

broken

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest sister

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

freed, be

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

virgin

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cave

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

sweat

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal uncle

brother in law

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

story

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

separated, be

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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