Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

n lump

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

adj lumpy

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

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

other person

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

no

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

be quiet

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

hello

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

second

throw

thousand

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

black ant (large, stings)

noun heel

bow

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

n crab

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

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

male

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

hand

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

shell

every day

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister

brother in law

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

story

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

twin

blue

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n banana

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