Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n parrotfish

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

noun fan

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

trap (v)

return

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n chair

Speaker: Macy Edgar

child

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

n sweetheart

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

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

we know each other

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hip

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

spear

malaria

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[men] classifier for people

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb breathe

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

son

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

v sexually experienced

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

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

river

freed, be

wing

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

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

thief

noun full moon

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

brother in law

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

blue

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence I have 2 canoes

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

hail