Mokilese English

[aiʔ] noun mine

beard

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. later

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

[armaʒ dapɔ pono pinit͡ʃi] sentence how many people are going on the ship

pron. ours

num. nine

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adjective dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

where

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

in the evening

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

who

noun dawn

in morning

noun fan

Speaker: Danio Poll

thumb

noun finger

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

sneeze

noun small baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

cheek

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (plural remote)

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

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

find

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ki:l] n small wooden ridge underneath either side of a canoe, as well as underneath an outrigger, to protect the bottom

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun elbow

rich

verb, transitive break

verb kill

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb make something die

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. white

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb be pregnant

num. five

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

n unidentified fish species

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

waist

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

[men] classifier for people

[mɔn] your

adj. thin

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun intestines

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

elderly

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut tree

[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 wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

hidden, be

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dream

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

every

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun pipe

verb lie (down)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

coconut milk (handmade)

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun pond

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

arm

noun boat

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

excrement

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

day before yesterday

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun start

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

house

noun house

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

feather

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar