Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tiger

n surgeon fish

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

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash self

wash someone

mother-in-law

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to force

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

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

n scaleless fish

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

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

shaman

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

verb, transitive break

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

tusk

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

[mɔn] your

sentence I have a canoe

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

have children

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb make by weaving

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun puddle

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

obey

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

wild boar

river

recognize

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to try to break or deflower

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

pull open

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

house

hut

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

wet, become

make

village

wet

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll

n banana

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