Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj lumpy

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

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

dry

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

how much

sea snake

flea

lice, body

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

sun

never

noun smoke

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

put

skin

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

black ant (large, stings)

[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

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n bracelet

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest brother

sentence I have a canoe

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

male

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

left

clean

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun pipe

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

young woman

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ground

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

mud

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun knee

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

twenty

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

separated, be

stop

star

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

wet, become

make

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll