Mokilese English

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun dog

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

noun leg

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother-in-law

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sea snake

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

n skipjack (fish)

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

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

push

be quiet

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

put

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

comb (v)

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cloud

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

adj. very poor

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

num. five hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb smell

sky

blind

[men] classifier for people

frighten

noun monkey

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liau pɔː rit͡ʃeta] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

boiled

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be prepared

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

say

thief

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

paternal uncle

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

west

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn