Mokilese English

noun name

Speaker: Macy Edgar

his

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

v To taste or smell of peppermint

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

noun hammock

Speaker: Danio Poll

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

elder

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun fast

Speaker: Danio Poll

which

starve

Speaker: Danio Poll

starved

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fourteen

Speaker: Danio Poll

paternal grandfather

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

vi to force

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

prefix not

Speaker: Danio Poll

Swiss army knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

salt

verb remain

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

adj. clumsy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun boy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

sick

never

verb fly down

Speaker: Danio Poll

send

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. skillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

throw

verb exchange, to

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

first

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun cage

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n papaya

noun fingernail

pronoun you (singular)

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

verb to build up

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

noun fly

waist

verb touching one’s nose to a child’s forehead

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have hiccups

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

n death

interro. how

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun breadfruit tree

Speaker: Ichiro John

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

old (person)

adj. bad

Speaker: Thakar Peter

sentence When did you buy a hat?

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[ŋɔː iːla ɔ̃ʔ aio] sentence I went there yesterday

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː piɾin kiɔŋ pit͡ʃo wɔlo] sentence I will give the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

boiled

son

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

v sexually experienced

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

noun coconut in its last stage of development (meat is hard, husk is brown, coconut fallen from tree)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun coconut crab

Example: Crancs dels cocoters a Bora-Bora. by Brocken Inaglory, 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0 via ca.wikipedia.org

Speaker: Danio Poll

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

num. forty

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun pipe

noun piece of sail where the two rajak meet

Speaker: Danio Poll

hat

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bag

Speaker: Thakar Peter

youngest brother

noun coconut stage (for drinking)

Speaker: Danio Poll

free

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hair

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground

Speaker: Danio Poll

friend

will be

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun bat

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun foot

n batfish

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

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun maternal uncle

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

yellow

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun snake

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hearth, cooking pit/fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

twin

eighty

n window

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

[wʌs] noun living coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun rain that hurts, hail

Speaker: Danio Poll