Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

spit (v)

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n parrotfish

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

wash someone

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

where

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

noun east

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to force

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

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

priest

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

cry

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

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

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

noun eat

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n spine foot (fish)

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

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

pain

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hide

receive

pull in

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

son-in-law

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

verb escape

ground

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

sister

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

singer

separated, be

stop

sentence I have 2 canoes

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

turtle

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter