Mokilese English

noun egg

trail

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence why are you here

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

pron. ours

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n surgeon fish

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

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. bald

Speaker: Macy Edgar

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

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

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

try

throw

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sniff

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

death

sharpening tool

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

leech

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

son-in-law

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

friend

[pʷai] n a piece wood that holds down the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

seat

Speaker: Ichiro John

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

sister-in-law

adj. thin

pull open

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

first

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

farmer

raise

star

noun star

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

hut

turtle

lift open

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John