Mokilese English

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb jerk

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wash self

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

other person

dry

verb press

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

cook

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bleed

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

noun year, age

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

noun bow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rich

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb smell

sniff

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canned milk (store bought)

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

young man

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry, be

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

traditional chief

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puddle

husband

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hot

n batfish

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

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

strong

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll