Mokilese English

trail

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n surgeon fish

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

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

n parrotfish

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

wash someone

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

other person

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sun

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

see

twist open

throw

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

salivate

noun heron

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

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

n bracelet

noun ocean area very far from reef

n crab

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

scared

spear

n spear for fishing

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

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

young man

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hide

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

arm

noun forearm

wing

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

heat (v)

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

adj. thin

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

copulate (have sex with)

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll