Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence why are you here

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

drum

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash someone

noun leg

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n love

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

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

n papaya

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

red ant

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

think

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

waist

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpening tool

pain

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hungry

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

there

hidden

pull in

n goatfish

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

broken

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

dirty

will be

thief

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

mud

tribe

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun foot

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

n tip of penis (slang)

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

twenty

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

hear

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

n fashion earrings

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

hut

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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