Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

starve

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

twelve

paternal grandmother

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

dry

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

noun finger

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

yesterday

third

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rat

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I have a canoe

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun north

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

n goatfish

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

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

set on fire

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

thigh

virgin

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

heat (v)

burned

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun smell

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

vomit

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll