Mokilese English

trail

sentence why are you here

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n lump

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

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n parrotfish

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

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to force

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

n love

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

priest

little finger

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eat

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

n papaya

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cloud

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

waist

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence I have a canoe

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

sweet

young man

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puddle

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

defecate (shit)

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun foot

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

shell

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wet, become

sixty

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll