Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

[amai] yours (plural)

noun elected chief

adj lumpy

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

drum

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

ninety

wash self

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

where

seven hundred

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun dawn

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

gonorrhea

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[t͡ʃimʷ] n the rail on top of the canoe; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

no

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n sweetheart

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

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

feed

find

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

n spine foot (fish)

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

fall

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

[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

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

pronoun you (singular)

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

verb hold

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

think

mad

verb smell

spear

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

have children

sell

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

water

dirty

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pɔŋ] n wooden platform on the top of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

thigh

recognize

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n fashion earrings

noun meat

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll