Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[apid] n three wooden poles on either side of and parallel to the two kia that make up the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

what

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

which

adj lumpy

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

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

paternal grandmother

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

dry

noun dawn

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

bleed

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

noun finger

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun axe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

never

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area very far from reef

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

eldest sister

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

green

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden

receive

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

youngest brother

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

urinate (piss)

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

will be

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cave

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give greetings

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

today

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n party (celebration)

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

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

singer

separated, be

tree

verb vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fruit

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John