Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

bosom/breast

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

many people

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

other person

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

where

how much

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in morning

n scaleless fish

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

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to be poor

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

noun year, age

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

find

second

n papaya

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

noun mosquito larva

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sky

wash clothes

noun ocean area very far from reef

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

eldest brother

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun head

raw

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

that

n goatfish

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

every

verb, transitive burn

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forearm

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

twenty

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hear

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

understand

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll