Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

[amai] yours (plural)

tiger

which

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandmother

maternal grandmother

seven hundred

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

n love

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

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

sharpen

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

little finger

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

child

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

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

watch (v)

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

they know each other

[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 fingernail

fall

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

thirsty, be

[men] classifier for people

frighten

noun head

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

receive

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puddle

hat

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

youngest brother

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

arm

thigh

ground

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fishing pole

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

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun maternal uncle

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

pull open

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

wet, become

feather

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar