Mokilese English

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

noun elected chief

verb jerk

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

where

seven hundred

ripe

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

noun priest

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

gonorrhea

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cry

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (two)

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

see

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

second

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n papaya

they know each other

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouse

skin

undress

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

kiss

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

eldest sister

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, transitive burn

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

young woman

youngest sister

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

say

thief

noun cave

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

n party (celebration)

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

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

raise

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence I have 2 canoes

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn