Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

drum

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

wash self

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

other

noun maternal grandfather

seventy

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

vi to force

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

slow

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

noun finger

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[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

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

mouse

rat

fall

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

big

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

tusk

think

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mad

verb smell

waist

noun ocean area very far from reef

eldest sister

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun breastmilk

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

worm

leech

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

take

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

brother

first

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

hut

twin

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

turtle

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll