Mokilese English

noun egg

shoulder

tiger

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

n large lizard introduced by the Japanese to Mokil Atoll; may possibly be a Mangrove Monitor (Varanus indicus)

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

n playing card

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

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (two)

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

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

twist open

second

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

big

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

waist

yawn

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[mɔn] your

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

female

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

snore

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n goatfish

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

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

free

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

arm

noun coconut for seedling

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun Pohnpei

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun smell

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

sister-in-law

adj. thin

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

verb play

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

turtle

make

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

feather

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n banana

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