Mokilese English

verb nurse

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[aɾai] theirs

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

num. fifteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

dry

seventy

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse, head

sharp

sad

noun mother

Speaker: Danio Poll

n love

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

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun finger

noun baby, child

Speaker: Thakar Peter

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o mɔi nen amako] sentence the boy is sleeping in the hammock

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[t͡ʃɔn t͡ʃilu] n a type of knot

lightning

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. impossible

Speaker: Danio Poll

sick

noun puffer fish

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun paddling canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

yesterday

third

verb clean

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun eat

we know each other

rat

toenail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hell

Speaker: Monique Poll

rich

noun sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

tusk

noun comb

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb cough

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun a line held by a person in the back of the canoe that helps to control the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

verb tap noses together (nose to nose)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fly

noun hip

red ant

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

this

[mɔn] your

male

verb go to sleep

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have breakfast

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun charcoal/embers

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pennant bannerfish

Example: Pennant Bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus) by Cliff, 2008, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ lakap] sentence I will not go there tomorrow

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː polobidi sugo ʃilɔː] sentence I cut the tree with the axe

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb give birth

Speaker: Danio Poll

born, be

that

verb hide

Speaker: Danio Poll

pull in

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun hive

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

adj. another

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sand

water

arm

recognize

noun eye, possibly "part of face"

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun smell

[pʷɔs] n

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun small hole (in wall, paper, etc.)

Speaker: Danio Poll

shell

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

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

noun day

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

south

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

bone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

shoulder blade

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. powerful

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun (fire)wood

Speaker: Danio Poll

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

rain

Speaker: Danio Poll