Mokilese English

trail

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

tiger

drum

then

noun leg

other

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

how much

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bowstring

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

twist open

throw

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bow

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

blind

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

young man

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n goatfish

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

v sexually experienced

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

broken

verb prepare

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

urinate (piss)

noun pond

tie

freed, be

wing

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishing pole

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

n batfish

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

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

hear

copulate (have sex with)

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

singer

house

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

wet, become

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll