Mokilese English

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

spit (v)

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence What did you buy?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

tiger

pay

noun maternal grandfather

noun ghost

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

at night

Speaker: Thakar Peter

bleed

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi to force

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

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

n skipjack (fish)

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

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o doːda in sugo] sentence the boy climbed up the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun other type of baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

pronoun you (two)

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

num. fourth

Speaker: Danio Poll

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

rat

pronoun you (plural remote. more than two individuals)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fall

Speaker: Danio Poll

black ant (large, stings)

red ant

noun ladder

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun heel

noun chin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun cloud

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun barrow, hog (castrated pig)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb be pregnant

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

noun hip

waist

noun sand crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

n bracelet

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

scared

[men] classifier for people

young man

worm

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

green

Speaker: Danio Poll

afternoon

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl] my black pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun north

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

that

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

every

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nest

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb fight

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

free

sand

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

recognize

preverb will

Speaker: Danio Poll

mud

hot

noun fishing pole

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

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hole

sweat

noun full moon

v to be broken or deflowered

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

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. wide

verb, intransitive To be in dire need of cigarettes

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

strong

skull

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

noun young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb start boiling

Speaker: Thakar Peter

village

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs