Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

yes

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

ripe

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n love

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

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[t͡ʃimʷen re:l] n the rail on top of the canoe and near the front end; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun elbow

verb, transitive break

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

verb be pregnant

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have a canoe

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun intestines

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

son

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

verb prepare

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

young woman

youngest brother

noun green coconut

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

hot

n Kind of jellyfish

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

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sister

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

fly (v)

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

copulate (have sex with)

strong

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

pull

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll