Mokilese English

noun egg

trail

elder

what

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun leg

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

twelve

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

maternal grandmother

dry

where

noun east

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

louse, head

cook

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun priest

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun smoke

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

they know each other

noun mosquito larva

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

salivate

verb hold

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

n crab

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

blind

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

n spear for fishing

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

adj. happy

this

n death

sharpening tool

female

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

young man

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

hand

defecate (shit)

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister

brother

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

singer

tree

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll