Mokilese English

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb enter

Speaker: Macy Edgar

wash hair

sea snake

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flea

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noon

Speaker: Macy Edgar

who

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

slow

sharpen

little finger

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

sun

try

find

buttocks

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

throw

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

mouse

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

roof

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

fishinghook

Speaker: Ichiro John

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

num. five

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash clothes

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun line that is used to pull up the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpening tool

noun breastmilk

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

sentence I bought a hat yesterday.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb born

Speaker: Thakar Peter

born, be

noun grandmother (general)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pa:t͡ʃ] n a sitting place on the edge of the canoe, on top of the connection between the canoe and the outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun female (gender)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

youngest sister

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tie

ground

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

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun knee

noun day

every day

twenty

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun eldest sister

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

noun leaf

tree

noun remain

blue

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll