Mokilese English

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

[apid] n three wooden poles on either side of and parallel to the two kia that make up the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

then

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

rainbow

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

n skipjack (fish)

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

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. possible

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eat

find

n papaya

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spear for fishing

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

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

sentence I have a canoe

noun canned milk (store bought)

male

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

ocean

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

noun north

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every

noun puddle

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

freed, be

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

say

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twenty

brother in law

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

noun leaf

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

stop

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

hut

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wet

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail