Mokilese English

trail

don’t run

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

drum

verb buy

Speaker: Thakar Peter

dried

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

louse

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to cook

Speaker: Thakar Peter

who

verb leave

Speaker: Danio Poll

[inɔn mʷɔkilɔ] n Mokilese knot

n love

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

adj. low

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. not clean

Speaker: Danio Poll

return

verb answer

Speaker: Thakar Peter

verb bury

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n skipjack (fish)

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

thirty

sun

ill, become

shaman

[t͡ʃukren maʊ] n type of knot that looks like the mouth of a parrot fish

adj. not stingy

Speaker: Danio Poll

see

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

they know each other

fall

noun heel

verb hold

verb, intransitive white

Speaker: Danio Poll

sword

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb talk

Speaker: Danio Poll

tongue

[liː o nikit͡ʃan pumpo wɔlo] sentence the woman took the fish from the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun malaria

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fly

noun honey bee

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hip

wash clothes

warm

Speaker: Danio Poll

malaria

eye

Speaker: Danio Poll

pain

chest

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. better

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun fish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun coconut tree

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun wave, the surf

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb catch a fish by line

Speaker: Danio Poll

fire

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

set on fire

verb prepare

noun paddle

Example: Photo by Lawrence Joao Haavik, 2015

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun puddle

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

obey

free

wild boar

saliva

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb steal

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun ground/soil

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb escape

verb defecate (shit)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

thigh

n floor

Speaker: Macy Edgar

friend

noun cave

noun itch

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun basket

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun tree branch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun day

two

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

adj. skinny

Speaker: Danio Poll

flower

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun stone, rock

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, intransitive To be in death agony

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

strong

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

seven

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

seven

Speaker: Macy Edgar

very old man

Speaker: Danio Poll

n foundation of house

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun canoe front

Speaker: Ichiro John

sailing canoe

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb to exchange

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun forest

Speaker: Danio Poll

hail

noun lobster

Speaker: Danio Poll