Mokilese English

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

spit (v)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cook

who

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

thumb

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

weak

salt

verb remain

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thirty

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

yesterday

noun smoke

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

feed

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

second

[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

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hold

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hip

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mɔn] your

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

traditional chief

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sell

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wife

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

ground

say

why

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

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

noun day

noun maternal uncle

pull open

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

hut

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sixty

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll