Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aiʔ] noun mine

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

n surgeon fish

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

noun duck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash hair

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb press

ripe

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

noun dawn

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

priest

return

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

weak

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jɔrɔkli] n on the side of a sailing canoe to hold the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

they know each other

comb (v)

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

eldest sister

true

[men] classifier for people

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

old

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n teeth

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

boiled

clean

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

noun answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

day after tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

virgin

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sister-in-law

brother

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

story

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

star

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

lift open