Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

which

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

ninety

wash someone

starve

paternal grandmother

noun maternal grandfather

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

sad

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

return

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

child

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to be poor

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

feed

see

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

[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

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

comb (v)

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

wash clothes

scared

honey

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirsty, be

eldest brother

noun breastmilk

female

how

sweet

leech

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

set on fire

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

youngest brother

noun green coconut

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

wing

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

hot

tribe

noun cave

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

v to be broken or deflowered

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

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

tree

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

wet, become