Mokilese English

noun anchor

Speaker: Ichiro John

adv. before

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun old person

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence What did you get?

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

many people

wash hair

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

[int͡ʃɔn papa] sentence who is your father

[inɔn jenwʌs] n literally, ’knot at the reef’; a quick knot made before sailing a canoe

[inɔn pʷit͡ʃ] n a type of knot

machete

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun baracuda

Speaker: Danio Poll

v to have a drooping foreskin (vulgar insult)

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

gonorrhea

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three

Speaker: Macy Edgar

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb lose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun farmer

Speaker: Danio Poll

never

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

day before yesterday

Speaker: Danio Poll

hello

feed

n coffee

Speaker: Macy Edgar

we know each other

noun striped lizard

Speaker: Danio Poll

ant

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

killed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

noun elderly woman

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sow (female pig of reproductive age)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb lie (tell untruth)

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. fifty

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb smell

bee

Speaker: Danio Poll

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. fearful

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. hard

Speaker: Danio Poll

death

[men] classifier for people

sharpening tool

noun canned milk (store bought)

female

smooth

head

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun monkey

leech

noun intestines

fat (size)

Speaker: Danio Poll

fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ŋɔː ʃipiɾin iːla mɔ] sentence I am not going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃu] sentence I don’t see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

son

fishing line

Speaker: Ichiro John

v sexually experienced

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

verb dream of (something)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun arrow

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb prepare

puddle

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun smaller striped

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun sprouting coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

float

Speaker: Danio Poll

these three black pigs of mine

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

water

verb choose

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb swim

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. crazy

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

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

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

brother in law

sister-in-law

adj. tall

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. burned (food)

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crab

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

strong

adj. small

Speaker: Danio Poll

ear

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun leaf

adj. narrow

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

farmer

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

[wʌs waːsa] noun red coral

Speaker: Ichiro John

fruit

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fruit

next week

Speaker: Danio Poll

this place

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll