Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

shoulder

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

noun elected chief

drum

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

where

noun east

seven hundred

ripe

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

verb to be poor

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sweetheart

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

yesterday

adj. possible

find

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

n papaya

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

old

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

defecate (shit)

noun cave

n batfish

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

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twenty

sister-in-law

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

blue

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

feather

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hail