Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

verb walk

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bosom/breast

Speaker: Thakar Peter

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

pay

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

noun dawn

both

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun pocket knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun table knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

weak

verb remain

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb help

Speaker: Danio Poll

bowstring

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun smoke

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

feed

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

new

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

noun mosquito larva

noun a piece of line tied to the kehu that can be pulled to reduce the size of the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fist

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sniff

sky

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

n spear for fishing

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

malaria

[meɾin war] noun canoe back

Speaker: Ichiro John

how

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun grandfather (general)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hungry

noun pennant bannerfish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brother in law

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

set on fire

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

armpit

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

arm

noun forearm

defecate (shit)

noun tuna

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knee

shell

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bottom mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to try to break or deflower

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

brother in law

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

fly (v)

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

n party (celebration)

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

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

summer

verb laugh

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

sixty

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

lift open

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[wɔlo me kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man gave the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll