Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

paternal grandfather

noun maternal grandfather

how much

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

child

thirty

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

hello

adj. possible

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

new

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

throw

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

tired

big

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

widow

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

leech

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun north

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be prepared

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb escape

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

ground

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

thief

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

day after tomorrow

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun maternal uncle

brother in law

brother

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

strong

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tree

noun remain

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson