Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

wash hair

yes

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eleven

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

how much

noun eel

Example: Snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa in Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States by Brocken Inaglory, 2008, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikipedia

Speaker: Danio Poll

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb drunk, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb remain

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

thirty

no

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun smoke

verb to frighten

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

fall

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

black ant (large, stings)

noun heel

bow

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb smell

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

spear

n spear for fishing

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

honey

thirsty, be

death

left (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

sweet

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

hidden, be

hidden

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

set on fire

wife

young woman

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

sand

arm

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hole

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun small piece of wood that is tied perpendicular to the kehu, about 1/3 from the bottom

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun meat

vomit

verb do

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n banana

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