Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aiʔ] noun mine

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

pron. ours

verb jerk

save

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

kind

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

salt

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n steel drum

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

new

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

salivate

tusk

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb smell

sky

noun hip

n bracelet

n crab

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

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun canned milk (store bought)

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

young man

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

have children

born, be

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb prepare

verb be prepared

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

ground

virgin

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun foot

noun maternal uncle

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

strong

adj. powerful

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

tree

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar