Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

wash someone

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

other

paternal grandfather

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eagle

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

gonorrhea

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thirty

be quiet

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

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

feed

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

[keinin eɾe] n wooden poles the run perpendicular to the apid and kia, on the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

undress

bow

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

salivate

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash clothes

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

how

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crow

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

silent

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

clean

there

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

husband

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

obey

young woman

adjective / noun black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urine

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal aunt

v to be broken or deflowered

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

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

stop

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson