Mokilese English

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

n surgeon fish

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

verb jerk

wash someone

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

maternal grandmother

seven hundred

[ilaɾe] to troll

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to force

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

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n Idiot or fool (jack-ass)

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

noun father-in-law

Speaker: Danio Poll

n rope that is tied to the canoe to hold the sail in place; there is one joahmwur on either side of the sail (front and back)

Speaker: Danio Poll

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb exchange, to

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

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun goose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fist

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

adj. frightened

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

adj. happy

true

noun fear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breastmilk

noun nausea; start to get sea sick, but cannot vomit

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

right (side)

Speaker: Danio Poll

sweet

noun father

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb want

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

ocean

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

sell

hidden

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

adj. all

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

young woman

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

wing

thigh

adj. deaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

heat (v)

n tip of penis (slang)

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

branch

Speaker: Danio Poll

sister

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

two

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twenty

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

brother

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fashion earrings

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

west

turtle

tr v. to eat raw fish without a condiment

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

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll

n banana

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