Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun egg

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

drum

nineteen

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

other

mother-in-law

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

how much

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cook

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

be quiet

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

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb dry

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb exchange, to

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

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

thousand

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun mosquito larva

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

black ant (large, stings)

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

adj. happy

eldest sister

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

male

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

worm

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

there

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun puddle

obey

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

urinate (piss)

verb escape

arm

noun forearm

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

friend

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

say

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n party (celebration)

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

strong

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

stop

noun remain

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fruit

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail