Mokilese English

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

trail

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

adj lumpy

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

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

seven hundred

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

n playing card

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

noun smoke

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rat

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

fall

roof

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cloud

verb, transitive break

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fly

red ant

n bracelet

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

death

eldest brother

eldest sister

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

smooth

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

traditional chief

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

have children

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be prepared

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

verb escape

thigh

virgin

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

burned

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cave

n Kind of jellyfish

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

noun full moon

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

day before yesterday

today

sister-in-law

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

raise

vomit

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

west

understand

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll