Mokilese English

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

n large lizard introduced by the Japanese to Mokil Atoll; may possibly be a Mangrove Monitor (Varanus indicus)

ninety

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

kind

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

no

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. possible

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

find

second

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

they know each other

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

roof

comb (v)

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

wash clothes

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

spear

sentence I have a canoe

male

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun head

young man

hungry, be

hungry

sit down

green

have

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

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

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

pull in

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

noun pond

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

twenty

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

n party (celebration)

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

adj. powerful

story

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun leaf

singer

tree

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vomit

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn