Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

[amai] yours (plural)

elder

tiger

adj lumpy

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

wash hair

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

other person

seven hundred

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

n skipjack (fish)

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

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n bluefin tuna

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

no

bowstring

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

try

send

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

third

find

[kapʷʉdpʷʉd] n a ridge sticking out from the sides of a canoe that protects the inside of it from high waves

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito larva

noun fingernail

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

salivate

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

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

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

kiss

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

waist

n crab

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

adj. happy

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

female

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

tooth

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

pron. your

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forearm

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

say

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

burned

shell

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

hear

strong

adj. powerful

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree

house

vomit

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun man

Speaker: Thakar Peter

rain

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll