Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leg

other person

noun maternal grandfather

dry

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n scaleless fish

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

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

little finger

kind

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n skipjack (fish)

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

child

push

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

n playing card

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

pronoun you (two)

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

noun eat

see

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

blind

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

set on fire

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puddle

son-in-law

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

obey

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to be broken or deflowered

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

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

hear

copulate (have sex with)

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I have 2 canoes

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson