Mokilese English

noun egg

[amai] yours (plural)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

noun elected chief

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj lumpy

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

n parrotfish

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

noun maternal grandfather

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

we know each other

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

verb bite

Speaker: Thakar Peter

black ant (large, stings)

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pregnant

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mad

sniff

sky

n bracelet

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mɔn] your

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

female

sit down

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

left

son

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

set on fire

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

virgin

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

hole

shell

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

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

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twenty

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

summer

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

west

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll