Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

shoulder

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

tiger

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ninety

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother-in-law

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

salt

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n skipjack (fish)

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

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bowstring

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

noun eat

find

thousand

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

rat

fall

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

rich

salivate

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

verb smell

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

adj. happy

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

true

sharpening tool

frighten

sweet

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

elderly

noun ocean

ocean

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun north

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hand

recognize

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun smell

sweat

n Kind of jellyfish

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

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

v to be broken or deflowered

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

sister

brother

pull open

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun piece of wood on the side of a sailing canoe that holds the sail lines

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

sixty

wet

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll