Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj lumpy

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

then

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

lice, body

sharp

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

bleed

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi to force

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

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

not skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thirty

be quiet

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

thousand

noun fingernail

n spine foot (fish)

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

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (singular)

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

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mad

noun ocean area very far from reef

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

frighten

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

drunk, get

hidden, be

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

freed, be

hand

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun full moon

n batfish

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

noun day

sister-in-law

adj. thin

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[wa:n pʷit͡ʃ] n two wooden poles that sit vertically on top of the outrigger and connect to the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll