Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wash self

wash hair

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandfather

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cook

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

bowstring

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yesterday

noun smoke

pronoun you (two)

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

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

second

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

skin

undress

n spine foot (fish)

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

rich

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb smell

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash clothes

yawn

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mɔn] your

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

youngest sister

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

defecate (shit)

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

recognize

say

[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

noun bowl

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

day after tomorrow

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

story

waterfall

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

turtle

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll