Mokilese English

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

shoulder

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

what

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

n surgeon fish

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

adj lumpy

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

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother-in-law

dry

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

no

be quiet

ill, become

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

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

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

undress

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

tongue

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb be pregnant

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

[men] classifier for people

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

noun ocean

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

sell

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

receive

n goatfish

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

v sexually experienced

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

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun green coconut

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n tip of penis (slang)

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

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

v to try to break or deflower

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

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun remain

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail