Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

then

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

n love

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

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife used for opening coconuts

Speaker: Danio Poll

army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

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

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun year, age

noun eat

verb exchange, to

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

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

we know each other

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

comb (v)

chin

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun you (singular)

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

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun female (person), woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

very old woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

mad

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

sky

noun fly

yawn

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

spear

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

verb dead

Speaker: Danio Poll

grass

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun intestines

hungry, be

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun male

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

clean

there

pull in

noun coconut that is already brown and ready to husk

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

noun spouse of

Speaker: Danio Poll

nest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

hammock

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun forearm

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

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hot

noun excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun full moon

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

young

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

lift open

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar