Mokilese English

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

drum

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandmother

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

seventy

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

gonorrhea

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

child

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

be quiet

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

sick

third

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

watch (v)

throw

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

[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

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

noun elbow

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

n crab

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

spear

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. happy

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

male

female

sweet

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

when

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun north

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

that

hidden

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puddle

hammock

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

noun knee

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. wide

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

wet, become

village

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter