Mokilese English

noun centipede

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

trail

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lump

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

many people

wash self

nineteen

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

cook

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

slow

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

weak

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

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

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

[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

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

roof

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tired

root

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

noun elbow

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

frighten

smooth

verb want

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

have children

sell

hidden, be

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

verb find

Speaker: Danio Poll

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

twenty

adj. thin

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

noun leaf

noun gecko

raise

twin

eighty

eight

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

west

understand

lift open

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

hail

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll