Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

drum

wash someone

dry

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

ripe

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharp

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun dawn

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

never

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

watch (v)

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n papaya

they know each other

noun fingernail

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

black ant (large, stings)

big

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

malaria

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

how

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun monkey

hungry, be

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

sell

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

that

hidden, be

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

obey

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb escape

noun coconut for seedling

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

say

why

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

today

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

star

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I have 2 canoes

west

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter