Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aiʔ] noun mine

trail

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n parrotfish

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

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

other person

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

flea

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dawn

in morning

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

bleed

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

ship

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. free

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

n steel drum

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

third

noun smoke

watch (v)

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

noun cloud

verb hold

noun language

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mad

wash clothes

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

honey

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

it’s cloudy (the sky is bad)

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

young man

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

old (person)

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sell

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

that

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

husband

wife

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

son-in-law

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Ichiro John

mud

noun smell

young

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sister

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun meat

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

feather

one man

Speaker: Danio Poll