Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. ours

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

pay

nineteen

mother-in-law

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

bleed

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

return

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

gonorrhea

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (two)

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

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

thousand

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

skin

fall

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

big

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n crab

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

[mɔn] your

frighten

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

noun coconut tree

drunk, get

have children

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb escape

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

shell

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

noun maternal uncle

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

copulate (have sex with)

adj. powerful

story

farmer

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll