Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash self

wash hair

wash someone

yes

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

seventy

lice, body

sharp

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

little finger

return

weak

verb remain

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

push

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

send

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smoke

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (two)

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

throw

[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

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

big

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

n bracelet

noun ocean area very far from reef

adj. happy

this

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

male

raw

adj. pretty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun north

clean

hidden

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

noun puddle

noun daughter-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tie

freed, be

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

sweat

n batfish

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

paternal uncle

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

brother in law

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hear

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sentence I have 2 canoes

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

wet, become

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar