Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb catch a fish by spear

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

other person

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

one

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

where

verb ask

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun east

verb come

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

sharpen

noun priest

trap (v)

little finger

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to be poor

impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

shaman

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

n playing card

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

n steel drum

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

noun back part of sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have fever, feeling hot

Speaker: Danio Poll

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb know

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bark

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n spine foot (fish)

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

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

rich

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean area outside and approximate to the barrier reef

noun fly

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun breastmilk

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hungry

Speaker: Danio Poll

hungry

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

old (person)

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

noun eyebrow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun nest of honeybees (lit. ’nest of sugarfly’)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

thief

[pʷit͡ʃ] n a wooden pole that sits above and paralell to the outrigger, on top of the kia; keeps the outrigger flexible

Speaker: Ichiro John

v To have one’s first sexual experience (slang)

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

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

n Kind of jellyfish

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

n tip of penis (slang)

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

every day

adv. today

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb begin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

tear

ankle

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

stop

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

blue

breadfruit tree fruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

west

wet, become

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

village

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll