Mokilese English

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

what

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

maternal grandmother

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

rainbow

verb press

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n love

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

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bluefin tuna

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

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bowstring

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

noun eat

watch (v)

new

second

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

thousand

noun mosquito larva

rat

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

sniff

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wash clothes

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thick

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

leech

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hide

v sexually experienced

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

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

youngest brother

noun green coconut

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

freed, be

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

friend

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

every day

day before yesterday

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

strong

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs