Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

what

many people

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

starve

noun leg

num. ten

Speaker: Macy Edgar

twelve

connector of canoe to outrigger

Speaker: Ichiro John

one

Speaker: Macy Edgar

how much

seven hundred

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb become ill

Speaker: Danio Poll

diarrhea

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

adj. possible

new

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

black ant (large, stings)

tusk

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cut

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearless

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun show-off

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. pregnant

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb smell

noun fly (n)

Speaker: Danio Poll

waist

n crab

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

scared

verb, transitive popular with girls

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

malaria

noun sap from coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

[milik in muŋe] noun dairy milk

Speaker: Monique Poll

noun ash(es)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

raw

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

ripe coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

elderly

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

when

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

n lips

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

son

mother

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

there

v sexually experienced

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

verb prepare

husband

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

freed, be

say

why

[pʷakəlap] n where the main mast is placed, in the middle of the canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun fishing pole

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

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

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

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every day

day after tomorrow

sister

brother in law

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

singer

noun meat

noun meat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pull

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

understand

wet, become

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn