Mokilese English

chicken egg

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun seahorse

Speaker: Danio Poll

[aiʔ] noun mine

[amai] yours (plural)

adv. now

Speaker: Macy Edgar

verb exit

Speaker: Danio Poll

num. hundred

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fan

pronoun he, she, it

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun enemy

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun lice (human lice)

Speaker: Danio Poll

bleed

blood

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

vi to force

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

n love

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

priest

toe

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

verb exchange, to

Speaker: Monique Panaligan

[t͡ʃeːrmʷen o kupolai t͡ʃaŋ in sugo] sentence the boy fell down from the tree

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun Bowie knife

Speaker: Danio Poll

push

v/n sail

Speaker: Ichiro John

send

adj. alone

Speaker: Thakar Peter

pronoun you (two)

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

noun eat

second

n papaya

vi to put a spell on a tree to prevent others from gathering the fruit, usually also involves a physical, be cursed

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

noun fingernail

skin

[kʌm] n bear paw clam shell

n spine foot (fish)

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

verb give

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun very young coconut

Speaker: Danio Poll

[kɔː joːmʷeːu] sentence are you sick?

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun ant

Example: Photo by David Harrison, 2015

Speaker: Danio Poll

bow

[kɔsɔ] n a trapezoidal piece of wood on the side of the canoe farther from the outrigger that connects the canoe and the poang

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb, transitive break

Speaker: Thakar Peter

gold

Speaker: Danio Poll

Mokilese

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb cooked

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun hole (in ground)

Speaker: Danio Poll

kiss

noun ocean area very far from reef

bird

Speaker: Danio Poll

blind

honey

adj. bright

Speaker: Danio Poll

here

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb chew

Speaker: Thakar Peter

noun storm

Speaker: Danio Poll

old

noun intestines

noun garden

Speaker: Danio Poll

vomit (v)

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb to have children

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. ugly

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun fishnet

Speaker: Danio Poll

[nen liː o pit͡ʃo] the woman’s pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː t͡ʃuːpa kapan pit͡ʃa] sentence I did not see the pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔː na kiɔn pit͡ʃu wɔlu] sentence I gave the pig to the man

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[ŋɔi pit͡ʃ sɔl t͡ʃilmen] my three black pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[nitin pɔŋ] n the section of the canoe on the other side of the outrigger; includes the poang, koasoau jaldu, pahj, etc.

Speaker: Ichiro John

verb want

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun daughter

Speaker: Danio Poll

interro. how many

Speaker: Danio Poll

adj. being hidden

Speaker: Danio Poll

take

pull in

noun spider

Speaker: Danio Poll

verb, transitive burn

verb dry

Speaker: Danio Poll

pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

three pigs

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo ʃen nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran out from the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

[pit͡ʃo kaula nen wɔlo] sentence the pig ran into the forest

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

wild boar

[pit͡ʃumene kolik] this big pig

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun lung

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun clown triggerfish

Example: Balistoides conspicillum, Balistidae, Clown Triggerfish; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. by H. Zell, 2009, CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Speaker: Danio Poll

n book

Speaker: Macy Edgar

noun fishing pole

Speaker: Danio Poll

noun hut

Speaker: Danio Poll

night

Speaker: Danio Poll

young

sister-in-law

noun brother

Speaker: Thakar Peter

adj. dark

Speaker: Danio Poll

n sheet

Speaker: Sanchez Johnson

story

verb kick

Speaker: Danio Poll

waterfall

noun gecko

summer

actually get sea sick

Speaker: Danio Poll

feather

[wɔlo piɾin kitom mɔi pit͡ʃo] sentence the man will give the pig to me

Speaker: Kalio Lebehn

noun whistle/stingray spear/to start to sprout

Speaker: Danio Poll