Mokilese English

[amai] yours (plural)

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun elected chief

drum

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

yes

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

twelve

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven hundred

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun finger

return

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to be poor

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sweetheart

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

adj. possible

noun eat

find

[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

rat

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

tusk

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun ocean area very far from reef

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[mɔn] your

sentence I have a canoe

raw

noun money

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sit down

old (person)

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

have

when

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃupakiɔ pit͡ʃu oldo] sentence I did not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

hide

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

every day

sister-in-law

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

farmer

raise

hut

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll