Mokilese English

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

what

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

twelve

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun east

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

flea

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

n scaleless fish

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

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

child

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃimʷen re:l] n the rail on top of the canoe and near the front end; above the kapwidpwid; prevents water from entering the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

be quiet

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

feed

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb exchange, to

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

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito larva

skin

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

noun elbow

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (singular)

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

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

yawn

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

female

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun north

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun river

Speaker: Danio Poll

sand

thigh

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n batfish

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

noun knee

noun day

every day

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj. wide

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

noun leaf

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

house

hut

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

feather

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll