Mokilese English

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

adj lumpy

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

noun big lizard; probably a type of monitor lizard

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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 grandmother

noun fan

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

rainbow

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

lice, body

noun infertile female pig

Speaker: Danio Poll

n scaleless fish

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

big knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

toe

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

verb remain

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

thirty

adj. stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cry

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb become sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

try

verb dry

n steel drum

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

thank you

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

new

heat (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

[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

undress

noun body fat, grease

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb sing

Speaker: Danio Poll

tusk

noun cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cockroach

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb talk

noun lagoon

Speaker: Danio Poll

ostentatious person

Speaker: Danio Poll

[liː o uli lamoi poɾin t͡ʃeto] sentence the woman went with me to the beach

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb be pregnant

back

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n bracelet

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun magic

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[mid͡ʒen war] noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

raw

leech

adj. short

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. sunny

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː t͡ʃɔpa iːla mɔ ai:o] sentence I did not go there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[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

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crossbar that holds the two masts together

Speaker: Danio Poll

clean

that

noun my friend

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun puddle

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

hat

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

these three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

these three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun bridge

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb escape

noun forearm

virgin

adj. burned (self, feeling)

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

why

verb awake

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

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

adj. overcooked, dry, tasteless

Speaker: Danio Poll

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb close

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb fly

Speaker: Danio Poll

n table

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun ear

Speaker: Macy Edgar

copulate (have sex with)

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

thorn

Speaker: Danio Poll

raise

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

village

wet

noun dog bark

Speaker: Danio Poll