Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

nineteen

maternal grandmother

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cook

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

n love

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

n scaleless fish

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

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

weak

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

n bluefin tuna

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

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sweetheart

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

noun smoke

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

thousand

we know each other

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fly

n crab

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

malaria

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

how

leech

old (person)

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

boiled

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb prepare

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tie

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

wing

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

tribe

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun foot

young

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sister-in-law

adj. thin

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

waterfall

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pull

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll

n banana

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