Mokilese English

pron. ours

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

drum

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mother-in-law

rainbow

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

who

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bowstring

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

n playing card

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

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. possible

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

find

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

new

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

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

mouse

red ant

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. pregnant

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

malaria

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mɔn] your

sentence I have a canoe

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

noun intestines

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

that

hidden

pull in

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

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

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

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

v to try to break or deflower

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

brother in law

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

fly (v)

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun remain

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fruit

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

lift open

feather

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll