Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun mosquito

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

what

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

where

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

canoe connecting fibers

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

ill, become

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

hello

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exchange, to

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

vi to alow a tentacle to be bitten off in order to escape the sea eel (of an octopus)

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

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔsɔ t͡ʃeltu] n the wooden back of the pahj, on the outrigger side

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

young man

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

sit down

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

sentence I bought a hat.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouth

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb float

Speaker: Danio Poll

youngest brother

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

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

sweat

n Kind of jellyfish

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

noun knee

every day

v to try to break or deflower

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

twenty

fly (v)

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

noun fishermen

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

vomit

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

understand

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb dog bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hail