Mokilese English

trail

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

shoulder

what

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

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

wash someone

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

how much

verb press

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

vi to force

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

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

slow

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

kind

gonorrhea

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

cry

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

spear

thirsty, be

this

death

[mɔn] your

female

old

noun intestines

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every

son-in-law

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun family

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

will be

why

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

thief

hot

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

noun cave

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

paternal uncle

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

blue

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

west

last week

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs