Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

what

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

noun leg

noun fan

ripe

flea

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

weak

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

never

adj. possible

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb exchange, to

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

red ant

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb smell

wash clothes

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun intestines

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

boiled

sell

receive

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

noun forearm

defecate (shit)

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mud

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

heat (v)

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

sister

brother in law

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

eighty

sentence I have 2 canoes

noun fruit

west

sixty

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson