Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

many people

drum

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dawn

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

vi to force

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

n love

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

priest

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

gonorrhea

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

noun year, age

n steel drum

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

noun eat

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

word

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

male

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

silent

when

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

receive

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun puddle

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

sand

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

thief

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

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

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

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

farmer

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

stop

star

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence I have 2 canoes

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wet