Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence why are you here

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

what

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ninety

paternal grandfather

noun maternal grandfather

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

rainbow

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

vi to force

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

kind

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

verb dry

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

watch (v)

find

twist open

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hip

noun ocean area very far from reef

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to kiss

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

drunk, get

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

sand

dirty

tie

noun coconut for seedling

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

heat (v)

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

paternal aunt

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

twenty

adj. thin

adj. powerful

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun gecko

singer

farmer

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fruit

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll