Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun elected chief

drum

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

child

noun moon, month

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

send

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

yesterday

hello

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

noun cloud

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb hold

noun fist

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this

n death

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

frighten

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

worm

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

clean

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

receive

pull in

v sexually experienced

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

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

broken

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

son-in-law

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

wild boar

verb escape

freed, be

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

thief

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

brother in law

brother

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

hear

noun fashion earrings

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

star

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

wet

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll