Mokilese English

noun egg

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun elected chief

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

ninety

noun leg

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

paternal grandmother

maternal grandmother

rainbow

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

flea

louse, head

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

slow

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

ill, become

shaman

yesterday

adj. possible

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

feed

noun eat

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

thousand

mouse

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (singular)

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

word

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

verb smell

sniff

[lɔ:n jɔ:mʷur] n where the line holding down the sail is tied; near the end of the canoe but before the repiakiak

Speaker: Ichiro John

waist

noun ocean area very far from reef

thirsty, be

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

frighten

male

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

young man

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

set on fire

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

freed, be

arm

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

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

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

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

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

day before yesterday

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

fly (v)

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hear

tear

separated, be

verb play

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll