Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

spit (v)

[apid] n three wooden poles on either side of and parallel to the two kia that make up the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

tiger

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

many people

n parrotfish

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

noun leg

nineteen

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sad

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

thumb

verb have diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

gonorrhea

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

be quiet

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

Example: Yellow form by Onderwijsgek, 2012, CC-BY-S 3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

mouse

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (singular)

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

tusk

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb be pregnant

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

n unidentified fish species

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

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n crab

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

[men] classifier for people

[mɔn] your

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

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

v sexually experienced

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

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

husband

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tie

wing

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

bat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mud

sentence tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

n Kind of jellyfish

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

young

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun front mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

day before yesterday

day after tomorrow

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

twenty

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fashion earrings

noun blow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sixty

make