Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb need

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun elected chief

tiger

[dam] n outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb come inside

Speaker: Danio Poll

n a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fan

[ia omʷunu] sentence where is your mother

seventy

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sad

verb go

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n skipjack (fish)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

never

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

adj. possible

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

twist open

[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

mouse

tired

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive break

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bracelet

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

have children

born, be

sell

that

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

water

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

wing

recognize

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

[pʷɔkɔr] n the wooden side of the pahj

Speaker: Ichiro John

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

noun betel nut

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Kind of jellyfish

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

paternal aunt

dead coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gecko

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb play

blue

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

make

[wɔlu t͡ʃuːpa kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man did not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter