Mokilese English

noun egg

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

vi to force

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

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

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

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

n playing card

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

noun smoke

they know each other

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb smell

sniff

wash clothes

yawn

scared

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canned milk (store bought)

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

youngest brother

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

tie

noun forearm

defecate (shit)

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

adj. dirty

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun fashion earrings

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

pull

village

wet

feather

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll