Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun egg

pron. ours

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj lumpy

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

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb jerk

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

twelve

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

verb press

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

sad

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

child

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

sun

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[jo:jo] n piece of wood under the kia

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

chicken

Speaker: Danio Poll

n playing card

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

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

feed

second

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

tree bark

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

noun fist

think

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

noun canned milk (store bought)

noun monkey

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ ] my pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

drunk, get

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

sell

broken

eyebrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

wife

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

bamboo

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

hand

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

tribe

sweat

verb have itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pull open

adj. long

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

wet, become

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

[wɔlo juːpa piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will not give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

n banana

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