Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

dry

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

seven hundred

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

slow

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n bluefin tuna

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

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

shaman

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sweetheart

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

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

salivate

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n bracelet

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sit down

have

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

when

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

drunk, get

boiled

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hidden, be

hidden

n goatfish

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

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wild boar

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

noun forearm

hand

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

will be

thief

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knee

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

farmer

tree

raise

stop

blue

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

pull

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson