Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

elder

tiger

mother-in-law

dry

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

bleed

slow

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

black ant (large, stings)

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

honey

adj. happy

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun canned milk (store bought)

female

smooth

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

arm

say

tribe

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

n Kind of jellyfish

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

shell

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. thin

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

strong

noun fashion earrings

waterfall

noun meat

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

blue

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

village

feather

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll