Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

verb catch a fish by hand

Speaker: Danio Poll

n lump

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

mountain

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash self

starve

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal grandfather

interro. how much

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

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

vi to be born

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

n scaleless fish

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

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

n skipjack (fish)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

no

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃoːlo] verb to catch a tuna

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun fence

Speaker: Danio Poll

thousand

they know each other

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heron

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

think

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb be pregnant

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

mad

widow

[lɔ] n seat of a canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

true

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

brain

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun money

adj. brown

Speaker: Thakar Peter

elderly

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

silent

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

there

hidden

v sexually experienced

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

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puddle

wife

son-in-law

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fry

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (good for drinking)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun green coconut

this pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

urinate (piss)

noun forearm

hand

thigh

tribe

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun bowl

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

n party (celebration)

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

noun coconut sprouted a little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

stop

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly man

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun banana

Speaker: Danio Poll

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll