Mokilese English

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

[apid] n three wooden poles on either side of and parallel to the two kia that make up the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

save

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

seventy

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi to be born

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

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

thirty

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

see

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

n papaya

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

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bow

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (singular)

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

tusk

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

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

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb smell

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

death

true

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sit down

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

drunk, get

boiled

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pull in

verb, transitive burn

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

husband

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

brother in law

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

hear

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

eighty

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John