Mokilese English

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

which

then

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[eː mɔi juːmʷen] sentence yes, I am sick

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. eleven

Speaker: Danio Poll

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wind

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb press

ripe

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

in morning

bleed

n scaleless fish

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

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

bowstring

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

try

verb dry

yesterday

twist open

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

second

noun brown lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun mosquito larva

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

undress

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

black ant (large, stings)

n stairs

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun cloud

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

word

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb talk

verb be pregnant

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb smell

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

spear

adj. happy

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

raw

noun leech; literally ’sticky worm’

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rough sea (moving sea)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ocean

sentence I bought her a dress.

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː pulila liː o poɾi t͡ʃeto] sentence I went with the woman to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun wooden structures that remove water from paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, intransitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

every

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun dead body

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

young woman

n plate

Speaker: Macy Edgar

defecate (shit)

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun mud

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

n Kind of jellyfish

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

verb shout

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

verb gather

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to fall on one’s backside (slang)

pull open

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

story

adj. little

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fashion earrings

summer

stop

[upʷen wen ] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

red

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun heavy breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

num. eight

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb build

Speaker: Thakar Peter

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

neck

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun isolated parts of the reef

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail