Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aɾai] theirs

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

maternal grandmother

rainbow

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

seventy

sharp

sad

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

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

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

send

pronoun you (two)

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

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

throw

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

they know each other

noun mosquito larva

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

salivate

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

tusk

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

verb be pregnant

widow

waist

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

how

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

worm

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

left

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

verb, transitive burn

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

wife

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun green coconut

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forearm

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

why

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun foot

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

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

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll