Mokilese English

noun egg

noun chicken egg

Speaker: Macy Edgar

trail

sentence why are you here

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun people of Mwoakilloa

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun gray-haired person

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. blue

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

[derəwak] n the place on the canoe where ropes are tied

Speaker: Ichiro John

n large lizard introduced by the Japanese to Mokil Atoll; may possibly be a Mangrove Monitor (Varanus indicus)

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mangrove crab

Example: Mangrove Boardwalk, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, South Queensland, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Dupont, 2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandfather

how much

noun high

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to be born

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

noun knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun girl

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

noun bowstring

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun boar (uncastrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

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

noun belly

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[ke:rup] n a wooden ridge below the canoe that protects the bottom from coral and keeps the canoe steady in the water

Speaker: Ichiro John

[kit͡ʃou] verb (singular, imperative) run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. huge

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adv. tomorrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

adj. pregnant

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun butterfly

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

n spear for fishing

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

honey

n traditional circlet used as a sign of welcome; generally made of flowers and/or palm leaves

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

heart

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

female

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fat (of a person)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo pɔː] sentence I will not give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb drink

Speaker: Danio Poll

drunk, get

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

verb, intransitive burn

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hammock

youngest brother

sand

say

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

hot

burned

sticky

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smell

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

n hair swirl, said to be mark of a naughty child

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

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

today

v to try to break or deflower

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

noun maternal aunt

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eldest brother

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun flower

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

noun beginning

Speaker: Danio Poll

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

snow

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sixty

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn