Mokilese English

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tiger

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

other person

maternal grandmother

mother-in-law

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

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 come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sharp

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pandanus fruit mat for sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

verb dance

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

watch (v)

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kia] n the two wooden poles in the middle of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

noun broom

Speaker: Thakar Peter

tusk

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

widow

noun green lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

waist

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be blind

Speaker: Thakar Peter

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

once upon a time

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

eldest brother

[men] classifier for people

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

female

how

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

leech

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

green

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

hungry; literally, ’I want to eat’

Speaker: Danio Poll

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

hidden

receive

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wife

son-in-law

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

free

freed, be

say

n tip of penis (slang)

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

noun seashell

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

n a piece of wood across the top edge of the canoe that holds the sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

brother in law

sister-in-law

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb hear

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

adj. black

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hut

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll