Mokilese English

noun egg

[at͡ʃike] hello/goodbye

noun mosquito

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb wash hands

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun string inside the seam of one side of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

people

Speaker: Ichiro John

elder

what

n light

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb catch

Speaker: Thakar Peter

n lump

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

drum

air

Speaker: Danio Poll

[ia domʷen] sentence what is your name

interro. how much

Speaker: Danio Poll

ripe

in the morning

Speaker: Danio Poll

in morning

verb bleed

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun small knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

knife to take out meat of coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

trap (v)

return

adj. unskillful

Speaker: Danio Poll

sentence don’t tell me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[jɔː war ewar] sentence I don’t have a canoe

noun grave

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb have cold

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun moon, month

verb finish

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb freed, be

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lime

Speaker: Thakar Peter

second

n middle mast

Speaker: Ichiro John

mucus

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb run

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun gun

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. big

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to start

Speaker: Danio Poll

tusk

noun trumpet

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun crocodile

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. very poor

verb grind

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. beautiful

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun piece of wood on the tip of the kehu that holds all the lines attached to the sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

sniff

adj. deep

Speaker: Danio Poll

wash clothes

verb jump

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Danio Poll

yawn

spear

male

pain

heavy breadfruit

Speaker: Ichiro John

noun head

father

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

young man

noun coconut (past stage of drinking)

Example: Photo by Emily Drummond, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. good

Speaker: Danio Poll

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

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

sentence I am going there today

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

snore

noun coconut tree

verb to deliver children/to raise children

Speaker: Danio Poll

broken

four

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

num. four

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb arrive

Speaker: Thakar Peter

hat

adj. flat

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun frog

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun bear

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun coconut already good for drinking, but meat inside thin

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adjective / noun big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[piʃ men o] that pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

tie

friend

tribe

n top mast of a sail

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun day

brother

noun leaf

Speaker: Danio Poll

vi To spread legs (vulgar)

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

noun neck

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb, intransitive to have a party

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

backbone

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun rib

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

nose

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun nose

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

valley

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

noun unwanted coconuts

Speaker: Thakar Peter

understand

six

Speaker: Stuart Mongs

six

Speaker: Macy Edgar